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

• 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。
• Mr Bragg had a plot of land repossessed by Linden Lab after using some sneaky tactics to buy it cheaply: he exploited a software glitch to start an auction before other users were ready.
  布拉格使用了一些卑鄙手段，以较低的价格购买了一块土地：他开发了一个软件漏洞，能够在其它用户准备好之前开始拍卖。
• 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。
• When I failed to make my mortgage repayments the building society repossessed my house.
  我不能付清抵押贷款时，建屋互助会收回了我的房子。
• I had two cars repossessed, and I was writing bad checks, but I gave myself a timeline.
  我以前的两辆车都是二手的，也曾经签过空头支票，但是我会给自己一个最后期限。
• 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%。
• ( 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。）
• The bank has not repossessed a home in seven years, or cost taxpayers a penny, but balloon payments and high rates are targeted under Dodd-Frank, which grants regulators wide discretion to decide what is "abusive".
  这种银行不会在7年内收回房子也不会花费纳税人一分钱，但是漂浮式付款和高利率的目标在于多德-弗兰克法案，这使得监管机构授予广泛的权力来决定什么是“滥用”。
• 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。
• They've even had their new house repossessed.
  他们甚至连新房子都被收回了。