foreclosure - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

From foreclose by analogy with closure, equivalent to fore- +‎ closure.

foreclosure (countable and uncountable, plural foreclosures)

1. (law) The proceeding, by a creditor, to regain property or other collateral following a default on mortgage payments.
2. (psychoanalysis) The absence of a symbolic father for a fatherless child, as a cause for psychosis.

• foreclose
• distraint