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/rˌipəzˈɛʃən/ Listen

Repossession

noun

The action of regaining possession (especially the seizure of collateral securing a loan that is in default).

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"Repossession" Quotes from Famous Books

... with a man like Ahmed Ben Hassan, at the mercy of his savage nature and passionate changeable moods? What reason to suppose that the love that had flamed up so suddenly at the thought that he had lost her would survive the knowledge of repossession? To him, all his life, a thing desired had upon possession become valueless. With the fulfilment of acquisition had come always disinterest. The pleasure of pursuit faded with ownership. Would this hapless girl who had ...

— The Sheik - A Novel • E. M. Hull

... them—between which her impression could continue sharply to discriminate. Before the subsequent passages, much later on, it was to be said, the flame of memory turned to an equalising glow, that of a lamp in some side-chapel in which incense was thick. The great moment, at any rate, for conscious repossession, was doubtless the first: the strange little timed silence which she had fully gauged, on the spot, as altogether beyond her own intention, but which—for just how long? should she ever really know for just how long?—she ...

— The Golden Bowl • Henry James

Words linked to "Repossession" : recovery, repossess, retrieval