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lien

Definition

  • noun: a legal claim that someone or something has on the property of another person until a debt has been paid back
  • noun: a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty ordinarily arising by operation of law
  • synonyms: falsehood, equivocation, falsity

Examples

  • The bank had a 'lien' on our house. [=the bank had the right to take our house if we did not pay back the money we had borrowed to buy it]

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) at different times in his life. This town didn't seem the same now that he was older. A new road had brought the outside world to Spectre... ...and with it, banks, liens and debt. Almost everywhere you looked, people were bankrupt. The auction today is for the town of Spectre. - So Edward Bloom... (..)
    2003 Big Fish