different between foreclosee vs foreclose

English

Etymology

foreclose +? -ee

Noun

foreclosee (plural foreclosees)

1. A person whose house is being foreclosed on.

   The bank called the foreclosee to say they were taking his house.

See also

• forecloser

English

Etymology

Partially from Middle English foreclosen, forclosen, from Old French forclos, past participle of forclore (“to exclude”), from for- (“(prefix used to express error, exclusion, or inadequacy)”) + clore (“to shut”), and partially from Middle English forclusen (“to close up”), from Old English forcl?san (“to close up”), equivalent to for- +? close.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?f???kl??z/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?f???klo?z/
• Rhymes: -??z

Verb

foreclose (third-person singular simple present forecloses, present participle foreclosing, simple past and past participle foreclosed)

1. (transitive, law) To repossess a mortgaged property whose owner has failed to make the necessary payments; used with on.

2. (transitive, law) To cut off (a mortgager) by a judgment of court from the power of redeeming the mortgaged premises.
3. (transitive, originally) To shut up or out; to prevent from doing something.

   Synonyms: stop, prevent, bar, exclude

   • 1602, Richard Carew, Survey of Cornwall

     The embargo with Spain foreclosed this trade.

Derived terms

• foreclosee
• forecloser
• foreclosure
• foreclosable

Translations

Further reading

• foreclosure on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “foreclose”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.