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Definition: Estoppel |
EstoppelNoun1. A rule of evidence whereby a person is barred from denying the truth of a fact that has already been settled. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Estoppel \Es*top"pel\, noun. [From Estop.]. (Websters 1913) |
"Estoppel" is a common misspelling or typo for: stopple. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Finance | A legal term referring to a condition or justification that bars a person from alleging something he has previously denied, or from denying something he has previously alleged. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Hindrance | Difficulty; insuperable; obstacle; estoppel; ill wind; head wind; (opposition); trammel, tether; (means of restraint); hold back, counterpoise. |
Prohibition | Noun: prohibition, inhibition; veto, disallowance; interdict, interdiction; injunction, estoppel; embargo, ban, taboo, proscription; index expurgatorius; restriction; (restraint); hindrance; forbidden fruit; Maine law. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Estoppel |
| English words defined with "estoppel": Estop. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "estoppel": beneficiary statement ♦ estoppel certificate. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Estoppel" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.59% of the time. "Estoppel" is used about 83 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) | 97.59% | 81 | 36,835 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.2% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.2% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 83 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 |
estoppel | 64 |
estoppel promissory | 31 |
certificate estoppel | 21 |
collateral estoppel | 7 |
equitable estoppel | 7 |
estoppel letter | 6 |
estoppel form | 5 |
by convention estoppel | 5 |
definition estoppel | 4 |
doctrine estoppel | 4 |
agreement estoppel | 3 |
certificate estoppel tenant | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "estoppel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | heqje e porosisë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | صد (alienation, baffle, balk, baulk, bear down, beat, beat off, blast, estop, exclusion, fend, fend off, fight off, hit, hit back, hold off, jolt, kick, negative, parry, poach, push, push aside, push back, quash, rebuff, repel, repudiate, repulse, repulsion, return, riposte, snub, spurn, stamp down, stave, stay, stay away, stem, throwback, toss, turn away, ward, ward off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zákaz (ban, blackout, inhibition, interdict, prohibition, taboo, tabu). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | estoppel, stoppage, préclusion, forclusion. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Duldungsvollmacht (agency by estoppel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kizárás (dismemberment, disqualification, excluding, exclusion, extruding, extrusion, requirement to withdraw from the college). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 禁反言 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | き"は"'". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | estoppelay embargo (appeal, attachment, caveat, detainer, detention, embargo, escheat, injunction, lien, objection to a default judgement, seizure), obstruir (beset, block, blockade, clog, dam, filiform, foul, Jamaica, let, obstruct, occlude, shut), impedimento (arrest, balk, batman, clog, cramp, delay, deterrent, embargo, gag, hindrance, hitch, impediment, let, obstacle, obstruction, patency, preclusion, preventer, prevention, preventive, stop, stoppage, trammels). (various references) процессуальный отвод (demurrer). (various references) estopel. (various references) exclusión (debarment, exclusion, lock out, lock-out, preclusion, protection), de exclusión (exclusive). (various references) önceki ifadenin savunmayı engellemesi. (various references) поцесуальне відведення. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "estoppel": estoppels. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "estoppel" (pronounced 'Es*top"pel'): Disgospel, rappel, scalpel, Stipel, Tetracarpel. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-l-o-p-p-s-t" | |
-1 letter: peoples, stopple, topples. | |
-2 letters: elopes, people, peplos, pestle, steppe, topees, topple. | |
-3 letters: elope, estop, leets, lopes, peels, peeps, peles, pelts, pepos, pesto, plops, plots, poets, poles, popes, sleep, sleet, slept, slope, speel, spelt, steel, steep, stele, stole, stope, teels, teles, telos, toles, topee, topes. | |
-4 letters: eels, else, epos, lees, leet, lept, lest, lets, lope. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-l-o-p-p-s-t" | |
+1 letter: estoppels. | |
+2 letters: leptospire. | |
+3 letters: depopulates, leptospires, propellents, repopulates, superpolite, townspeople. | |
+4 letters: copperplates, craftspeople, plecopterans, pleiotropies, polypeptides, propertyless, tradespeople, tribespeople. | |
+5 letters: glycopeptides, lepidopterans, lepidopterist, lepidopterous, leptocephalus, leptospiroses, overpopulates, pentaploidies, postepileptic, preceptorials, prepositively, prospectively. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 73 74 6F 70 70 65 6C |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01110011 01110100 01101111 01110000 01110000 01100101 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E s t o p p e l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0073 0074 006F 0070 0070 0065 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3985868182827178 |
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