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repossess

 verb
     
Related topics: Loans
re‧pos‧sess [transitive]
BFL to take back cars, furniture, or property from people who had arranged to pay for them over a long time, but cannot now continue to pay for them [↪ bailiff, repo man]:
Eventually the bailiffs came to repossess the flat.
—repossession noun [uncountable and countable]
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