REPLEVIN

Definitions: REPLEVIN

REPLEVIN

Noun

1. The writ by which goods and chattels are replevied.

2. A personal action which lies to recover possession of goods and chattle wrongfully taken or detained. Originally, it was a remedy peculiar to cases for wrongful distress, but it may generally now be brought in all cases of wrongful taking or detention.

Transitive verb

1. To replevy.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "REPLEVIN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1854. (references)

Specialty Definitions: REPLEVIN

Domain	Definitions
Economics	A legal action for the recovery of property brought by the owner or party entitled to repossess the property against a party who has wrongfully kept it. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: REPLEVIN

Synonym: Repossession of personal property. (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: REPLEVIN

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Acquisition	Recovery, retrieval, revendication, replevin, restitution; redemption, salvage, trover.
Borrowing	Replevin.
Restitution	Release, replevin, redemption; recovery; (getting back); remitter, reversion.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: REPLEVIN

English words defined with "REPLEVIN": Avowant, Avowry ♦ Replevy ♦ To sound in damages ♦ Withernam. (references)

Etymologies containing "REPLEVIN": Plevin. (references)

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Commercial Usage: REPLEVIN

Domain	Title
Books	Landor, a replevin (reference) Report on the Replevin act (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: REPLEVIN

"REPLEVIN" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "REPLEVIN" is used about 5 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 Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	5	157,705

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: REPLEVIN

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.

Expression	Frequency per Day
replevin	28
replevin writ	6
replevin bond	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: REPLEVIN

Language		Translations for "REPLEVIN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Dutch		vordering tot opheffing van beslag (action for replevin, action for restoration of rights, actionfor removal of interdict). (various references)

Finnish		takavarikon kumoaminen. (various references)

French		saisie-revendication, levée d'une saisie. (various references)

German		Aufhebung der Beschlagnahme. (various references)

Greek		επανάκτηση κατασχεθέντων πραγμάτων επ' εγγυήσει. (various references)

Italian		togliere un sequesto, annullare un sequestro. (various references)

Pig Latin		eplevinray

Portuguese		levantamento de embargos. (various references)

Romanian		ridicare a unui sechestru, cauţiune (bail, bailment, guarantee, guaranty, security, sponsion, surety). (various references)

Swedish		upphävande av utmätning, upphävande av kvarstad, upphävande av konfiskation, upphävande av beslag. (various references)

Turkish		gasp edilmiş malın iadesi hükmü, gasp edilmiş eşyayı geri alma davası, gasp davası. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: REPLEVIN

Derivations
	Words beginning with "REPLEVIN": replevined, replevining, replevins. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: REPLEVIN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-i-l-n-p-r-v"
	-1 letter: livener.
	-2 letters: envier, eviler, levier, lierne, liever, penile, reline, relive, repine, revile, veiler, veiner, venire.
	-3 letters: elver, ervil, leper, lever, levin, lieve, liner, liven, liver, livre, nerve, never, nieve, peril, plier, preen, reive, repel, repin, revel, ripen, riven, viler, viper.
	-4 letters: erne, even, ever, evil, leer, lien, lier, line, lipe, lire, live, neep, neve.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-i-l-n-p-r-v"
	+1 letter: replevins.
	+2 letters: replevined, replevying.
	+3 letters: overexplain, overleaping, preventible, replevining.
	+4 letters: overexplains, overpedaling, overpeopling, oversleeping, preveniently, preventively, protensively, redeveloping, responsively, unprivileged, vespertilian.
	+5 letters: convertiplane, hypervirulent, interpolative, overexplained, overpedalling, perseveringly, prerevolution, pretelevision, repulsiveness.
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