Usually means: Third-party holds funds securely.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. escrow: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. escrow: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. escrow: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. escrow: Collins English Dictionary
  5. escrow: Vocabulary.com
  6. Escrow, escrow: Wordnik
  7. escrow: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. escrow: Wiktionary
  9. escrow: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. escrow: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. escrow: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. escrow: Dictionary.com
  13. escrow: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Escrow: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Escrow: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. escrow: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. escrow: Rhymezone
  18. Escrow: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. escrow: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. escrow: Free Dictionary
  21. escrow: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. escrow: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. escrow: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. escrow: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  5. escrow: Law.com Dictionary
  6. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  8. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  9. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  10. Escrow: bizterms.net
  11. Escrow: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  12. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  13. MonsterMoving Mortgage Glossary (No longer online)
  14. Real Estate and Mortgage Glossary (No longer online)
  15. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  16. Escrow: Investopedia
  17. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  18. International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
  19. Escrow: INSOLVENCY
  20. escrow: Legal dictionary
  21. escrow: Financial dictionary
  22. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  23. Escrow: WashingtonPost.com: Business
  24. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. escrow: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. escrow: Hacking Lexicon
  3. escrow: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. escrow: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Escrow: Construction Glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (law) A contractual arrangement whereby money or assets are held in trust by an independent agent by the agreement of the parties, which can only be released to the relevant party once certain contractual conditions have been fulfilled.
noun:  (informal) The money or assets so held.
verb:  To place in escrow.

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