Topic: LOANS
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| Date: | 1200-1300 |
| Language: | Old French |
| Origin: | forclos, past participle of forclore, from fors 'outside' + clore 'to close' |
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fore‧close
[intransitive ] technical
[intransitive ] technicalBFL if a bank forecloses, it takes away someone's property because they have failed to pay back the money that they borrowed from the bank to buy it
—foreclosure
noun [uncountable and countable] 
housing foreclosures
noun [uncountable and countable] housing foreclosures
