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

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
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  2. impound: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. impound: Law.com Dictionary
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  6. Impound: Investopedia
  7. impound: Legal dictionary
  8. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
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  10. Impound: WashingtonPost.com: Business

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. impound: Encyclopedia

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  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To shut up or place in an enclosure called a pound.
verb:  (transitive) To hold back.
verb:  (transitive, law) To hold in the custody of a court or its delegate.
verb:  (transitive, law, banking) To collect and hold (funds) for payment of property taxes and insurance on property in which one has a security interest.
noun:  A place in which impounded things are stored.
noun:  (uncountable) The state of being impounded.
noun:  That which has been impounded.
noun:  (law, banking) Amounts collected from a debtor and held by one with a security interest in property for payment of property taxes and insurance.

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