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In psychoanalysis, a defence mechanism, first identified in 1956 by the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (1901–81), involving the expulsion of a fundamental signifier, such as the ...

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A Dictionary of Critical Theory (2 ed.)

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2018

... ( Verwerfung / forclusion ) The psychoanalytic term for the repudiation of a specific desire . It differs from repression in that the incompatible desire is not merely prevented from entering the consciousness, all trace of its existence is denied, as if the thought had never arisen. In his reading of Freud , Jacques Lacan treats foreclosure as the specific mechanism of psychosis (in contrast to neurosis ); he argues that the psychotic subject forecloses on the Name-of-the-Father (that which organizes the subject’s symbolic field and...

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A Dictionary of Law (10 ed.)

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Current Version:
2022
Subject:
Law
Length:
166 words

... n. A remedy available to a mortgagee when the mortgagor has failed to pay off a mortgage by the contractual date for redemption. The mortgagee is entitled to bring an action in the High Court, seeking an order fixing a date to pay off the debt; if the mortgagor does not pay by that date he will be foreclosed, i.e. he will lose the mortgaged property. If, after this order (a foreclosure order nisi) is made, the mortgagor does not pay on the date and at the place (usually a room in the Royal Courts of Justice) named, the foreclosure is made absolute...

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A Dictionary of Economics (5 ed.)

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Current Version:
2017
Subject:
Social sciences, Economics
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68 words

...foreclosure Taking over by a lender of a mortgaged property, because of failure by the borrower to comply with the conditions of the mortgage . This failure usually consists of failure to make interest and amortization payments by the due dates. Foreclosure is usually only resorted to by lenders when considerable arrears have arisen, and normally requires authorization by a court. In the UK the term is...

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A Dictionary of Accounting (5 ed.)

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Current Version:
2016
Subject:
Social sciences, Business and Management
Length:
117 words

... The legal right of a lender of money if the borrower fails to repay the money or part of it on the due date. The lender must apply to a court to be permitted to sell the property that has been held as security for the debt. The court will order a new date for payment in an order called a foreclosure nisi . If the borrower again fails to pay, the lender may sell the property. This procedure can occur when the security is the house in which the mortgagor lives and the mortgagor fails to pay the mortgagee (bank, building society, etc.) the mortgage...

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A Dictionary of Finance and Banking (6 ed.)

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2018

... The legal right of a lender of money if the borrower fails to repay the money or part of it on the due date. The lender must apply to a court to be permitted to sell the property that has been held as security for the debt. The court will order a new date for payment in an order called a foreclosure nisi . If the borrower again fails to pay, the lender may sell the property. This procedure can occur when the security is the house in which the mortgagor lives and the mortgagor fails to pay the mortgagee (bank, building society, etc.) the mortgage...

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A Dictionary of Business and Management (6 ed.)

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Current Version:
2016
Subject:
Social sciences, Business and Management
Length:
119 words

... The legal right of a lender of money if the borrower fails to repay the money or part of it on the due date. The lender must apply to a court to be permitted to sell the property that has been held as security for the debt. The court will order a new date for payment in an order called a foreclosure nisi. If the borrower again fails to pay, the lender may sell the property. This procedure can occur when a mortgagor fails to pay the mortgagee (bank, building society, etc.) the mortgage instalments, in which the security is the house in which the...

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A Dictionary of Psychology (4 ed.)

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2015

... n. In psychoanalysis , a defence mechanism , first identified in 1956 by the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan ( 1901–81 ), involving the expulsion of a fundamental signifier, such as the phallus as a fundamental signifier of the castration complex , from a person's symbolic universe. It may be a defence mechanism specific to psychosis ( 1 ) , and it differs from repression inasmuch as the foreclosed signifier is not integrated into the person's unconscious and does not re-emerge from within as a neurotic ( 1 ) symptom but may...

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A Dictionary of Oil & Gas Industry Terms (2 ed.)

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Current Version:
2024
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Science and technology
Length:
25 words

... Foreclosure Strategic behaviour by a person or group of persons which has the objective or the effect of restricting or eliminating competition in a market. ...

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New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary (2 ed.)

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Current Version:
2013
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24 words

... • azure • leisure , made-to-measure, measure, pleasure, treasure • countermeasure • Australasia , embrasure • seizure • closure , composure, enclosure, exposure, foreclosure • ...

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Oxford Business Spanish Dictionary: English-Spanish

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Current Version:
2003
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Bilingual dictionaries
Length:
15 words
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Oxford Business French Dictionary: English-French

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Bilingual Dictionary
Current Version:
2003
Subject:
Bilingual dictionaries
Length:
24 words
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New Oxford American Dictionary (3 ed.)

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English Dictionary
Current Version:
2015
Subject:
English Dictionaries and Thesauri
Length:
58 words
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Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.)

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English Dictionary
Current Version:
2015
Subject:
English Dictionaries and Thesauri
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66 words
foreclosure

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The legal right of a lender of money if the borrower fails to repay the money or part of it on the due date. The lender must apply to a court to be permitted to sell the property that has been held ...
foreclosure

foreclosure  

In psychoanalysis, a defence mechanism, first identified in 1956 by the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (1901–81), involving the expulsion of a fundamental signifier, such as the phallus as a ...
Mortgage Law

Mortgage Law  

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Types of mortgageUnder the Law of Property Act (1925), which governs mortgage regulations in the UK, there are two types of mortgage, legal and equitable.A legal mortgage confers a legal estate on ...
Agriculture Adjustment Administration.

Agriculture Adjustment Administration.  

In 1933, American agriculture neared collapse as farm bankruptcies and foreclosures multiplied and agricultural prices fell below the cost of production. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt ...
multiple breakeven points

multiple breakeven points  

Two or more activity levels at which an organization breaks even. They can occur on breakeven charts when the cost and revenue functions are not linear and the total cost curve and the total revenue ...
forbearance

forbearance  

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The position taken by a lender who chooses not to exercise his or her legal right of foreclosure when a borrower defaults. Instead, the lender may renegotiate the terms of the loan.
repossession

repossession  

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1. The taking back of something purchased, for nonpayment of the instalments due under a hire-purchase agreement.2. The situation in which a mortgagee (lender) takes vacant possession of the property ...

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