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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]

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Movie quotes

  • (..) Yeah. How sweet! You're so romantic. So would you like to drink? Yeah, let's! I'm trying to get this lien kid to help me find my ship, so I can get off this planet and go home...right? But he says me a little fucker, I want to kill him! (..)
    2013 Her