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FORECLOSED

Definition: FORECLOSED

FORECLOSED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Foreclose

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "FORECLOSED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1907. (references)


Crosswords: FORECLOSED

Specialty definitions using "FORECLOSED": bad debt reservecertificate of claimright of redemption. (references)
Etymologies containing "FORECLOSED": foreclose. (references)

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Commercial Usage: FORECLOSED

DomainTitle

Books

  • Foreclosed Real Estate: Your Profit Opportunity (reference)

  • Keys to Buying a Foreclosed Home (Barron's Business Keys) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: FORECLOSED

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Old barn on John Landers' farm near Marseilles, Illinois. Landers rents this farm from a group of mortgage noteholders who have foreclosed. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: FORECLOSED

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

New Zealand

Foreign-owned or controlled companies are not foreclosed from participation in industry standards-setting organizations. (references)

Political Economy

THAILAND

A legacy of the financial crisis, the bad loans will be restructured or even foreclosed with an eye toward facilitating corporate restructuring and improving banks' balance sheets. (references)

Trade

Philippines

Banks have been cautious about aggressively expanding loan exposures since the Asian crisis, focusing on cleaning up their respective portfolios of bad debts and foreclosed assets and on beefing up loan loss reserves. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: FORECLOSED

"FORECLOSED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "FORECLOSED" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)83.33%10111,207
Lexical Verb (past tense)16.67%2245,945
                    Total100.00%12N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: FORECLOSED

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

foreclosed home

1,020

foreclosed home pennsylvania sale

19

foreclosed properties

150

foreclosed home illinois sale

18

foreclosed home for sale

140

foreclosed home listing

17

foreclosed house

95

foreclosed hud home

17

foreclosed property

90

bank foreclosed home

16

foreclosed

83

ohio foreclosed home

15

foreclosed real estate

60

foreclosed home in michigan

14

buy foreclosed home

46

michigan foreclosed home

14

buying foreclosed home

36

foreclosed house sale

13

bank foreclosed home sale

29

buying foreclosed property

13

government foreclosed home

28

florida foreclosed home

13

foreclosed free home listing

24

foreclosed properties in houston

11

va foreclosed home

21

buy foreclosed property

11

california foreclosed home sale

20

foreclosed land

10

florida foreclosed home sale

20

foreclosed home in maryland

10

foreclosed home jersey new sale

19

indiana foreclosed home

10

foreclosed home sale virginia

19

california foreclosed government home

10

foreclosed home maryland sale

19

foreclosed home in georgia

9

georgia foreclosed home for sale

19

foreclosed home texas

9

foreclosed home sale wisconsin

19

foreclosed house in jersey new

9
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: FORECLOSED

Language Translations for "FORECLOSED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

取消赎回权 (foreclose, Foreclosing). (various references)

   

German

  

schloß aus (precluded). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oreclosedfay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: FORECLOSED

Misspellings

"FORECLOSED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fareclose, forclose, forecloser. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "FORECLOSED"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "FORECLOSED" (pronounced fôrklō"zd)
5-k l ō" z dclosed, disclosed, enclosed, undisclosed.
3-ō" z dcomposed, decomposed, deposed, disposed, dozed, exposed, hosed, imposed, juxtaposed, nosed, opposed, overexposed, posed, predisposed, proposed, reimposed, superimposed, supposed, transposed, unopposed.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: FORECLOSED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-f-l-o-o-r-s"

-1 letter: foreclose.

-2 letters: coloreds, decolors, deforces, flooders, foredoes, frescoed, refloods.

-3 letters: colored, coolers, creoles, creosol, decolor, deforce, doolees, flooder, floored, folders, fordoes, recodes, reflood, refolds, resoled, scolder.

-4 letters: ceders, ceorls, closed, closer, coders, colder, colors, cooeed, cooees, cooers, cooled, cooler, credos, creeds, creels, creole, cresol, decors, defers, dolors, doolee, dorsel, drools, elders, erodes, fleers, floods.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-f-l-o-o-r-s"
 

+3 letters: officeholders.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: FORECLOSED


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 4F 52 45 43 4C 4F 53 45 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01001111 01010010 01000101 01000011 01001100 01001111 01010011 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#79 &#82 &#69 &#67 &#76 &#79 &#83 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 004F 0052 0045 0043 004C 004F 0053 0045 0044

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

40495239374649533938

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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