Usually means: Terminate ownership due to nonpayment.
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  3. foreclose: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  7. foreclose: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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  9. foreclose: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. foreclose: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. foreclose: Infoplease Dictionary
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  13. foreclose: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. foreclose: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Foreclose: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Foreclose: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. foreclose: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. foreclose: Rhymezone
  19. Foreclose: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. foreclose: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Foreclose: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. foreclose: Free Dictionary
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verb:  (transitive, law) To repossess a mortgaged property whose owner has failed to make the necessary payments; used with on.
verb:  (transitive, law) To cut off (a mortgager) by a judgment of court from the power of redeeming the mortgaged premises.
verb:  (transitive, originally) To shut up or out; to prevent from doing something.

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