foreclosure
nounEtymology From foreclose by analogy with closure, equivalent to fore- + closure.
1
Law The proceeding, by a creditor, to regain property or other collateral following a default on mortgage payments.
2
Human sciences, Medicine, Psychoanalysis, Psychology, Sciences The absence of a symbolic father for a fatherless child, as a cause for psychosis.
- Derived terms
- antiforeclosure, market foreclosure, nonforeclosure, preforeclosure, widow foreclosure