Usually means: Seizing property to enforce payment.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. distraining: Merriam-Webster
  2. distraining: Collins English Dictionary
  3. distraining: Vocabulary.com
  4. distraining: Wordnik
  5. distraining: Wiktionary
  6. Distraining, distraining: Dictionary.com
  7. Distraining: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Distraining: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. distraining: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. distraining: FreeDictionary.org
  11. distraining: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. distraining: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. distraining: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  The act or process by which something is distrained.

Similar:
distrainment, distrainee, detrainment, distraction, distantiation, detraction, dislodging, disattachment, dismantling, deprivation, more...

Opposite:
releasing, freeing, relinquishing

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Similar:
distrainment, distrainee, detrainment, distraction, distantiation, detraction, dislodging, disattachment, dismantling, deprivation, more...

Opposite:
releasing, freeing, relinquishing



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