repossessed

英 [ˌriːpəˈzest]

美 [ˌriːpəˈzest]

v.  (因买者未如期付款而)收回(商品)，重新拥有(房地产等)
repossess的过去分词和过去式

过去分词：repossessed　

BNC.37375

柯林斯词典

• VERB (因未付清全款而)收回，重新占有
  If your car or houseis repossessed, the people who supplied it take it back because they are still owed money for it.
  1. His car was repossessed by the company...
     他的汽车因为欠款被公司收回。
  2. The firm's sales of repossessed properties is up by 40 per cent.
     这家公司收回房产的销售额上升了40%。

双语例句

• Set when the Depression was still a reality, the film looks at an elderly couple, played by Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi, whose savings are gone and whose house is repossessed by the bank.
  大萧条时设置仍是一个现实，电影看一对老夫妇，由VictorMoore和比尤拉邦迪，其积蓄付之东流，其房子由银行收回的角色。
• It could have been worse: Spanish banks have repossessed huge amounts of land that had not yet been built on, and residential-mortgage standards are rather conservative.
  情况本来可能更坏，好在西班牙银行业已经收回了大量尚未动工建房的土地，且还过住宅按揭的标准也颇为保守。
• They've even had their new house repossessed.
  他们甚至连新房子都被收回了。
• We waited for a letter to say that our mortgage had been transferred to the loan modification department and that we could begin negotiating, but instead we got a letter saying that our house was to be repossessed.
  我们在等候银行来信，通知我们房贷已经转到贷款修改部，可以开始和银行重新磋商了。然而，我们等到的却是收回房子的信。
• ( Many states require court approval before a home can be repossessed by a bank.)
  （很多州要求银行在收回房产之前须得到法庭许可。）
• In "The Grapes of Wrath", when Tom Joad's farm in Oklahoma was repossessed he packed up his family in a sputtering truck and set off for California.
  《怒火之花》中，俄克拉荷马的农场被收回后，汤姆。乔德就携上家人，坐上颠簸的卡车，动身前往加利福尼亚。
• A total of 34 homes in the neighbourhood has been repossessed, with another two homeowners filing for bankruptcy.
  整个社区有34所住宅被银行收回，另有两名房主正申请破产。
• Eligible applicants are offered an interest-free loan or a monthly subsidy to acquire their own homes. They were in arrears with their mortgage, so their home was repossessed.
  合资格的申请人可以获得免息贷款或每月领取按揭还款补助金，购置居所。他们未按时还按揭贷款，所以房子被收回了。
• The automobile you purchased from us was repossessed because you failed to make payments on it.
  本公司收回您向我们购买的汽车，因为您未付车款。
• The firm's sales of repossessed properties is up by 40 per cent.
  这家公司收回房产的销售额上升了40%。