repossess
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- v claim back
- v regain possession of something
- One enterprising company, NetNames International, even specializes in "domain-name recovery" and claims to have a stable of 60 attorneys worldwide standing by to repossess ill .
- Then there are all the houses it has to repossess as people stop paying their mortgages.
- If a borrower defaults, there is no house to repossess.