foreclosure

Etymology

From foreclose by analogy with closure.

noun

  1. (law) the proceeding, by a creditor, to regain property or other collateral following a default on mortgage payments
  2. (psychoanalysis) The absence of a symbolic father for a fatherless child, as a cause for psychosis.

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