| 单词 | distraint |
| 释义 | distraint (once / 59097 pages) n WORD FAMILY distraint: distraints USAGE EXAMPLESHe is now threatened with distraint for poor rates, church rates, and land-tax. Campbell, Theophila Carlile, The Battle of The Press—As Told in...(2011) Father once apologised to me—that was when there was a distraint out against him, if you know what that is—because he wasn't rich. Onions, Oliver [pseud.], The Story of Louie(2011) The refusal to pay tithes and other ecclesiastical demands led to continuous and heavy distraints, under the various laws made in that behalf. Various, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edit...(2011) n the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim Syn|Hyper distress seizure the taking possession of something by legal process |
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