Definition of "repossessing" [repossessing]

• Present participle of repossess. (verb)

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• "Though the President talked of "repossessing" the stolen forts, arsenals, and custom-houses, yet close upon this declaration followed the disheartening intelligence that the cabinet were discussing the propriety of evacuating not only Fort Sumter, which was of no strategic importance, but Fort Pickens, which was the key to the Gulf of Mexico, and to abandon which was almost to acknowledge the independence of the"
• "Georgakopoulos instructed the tax office heads to do more to meet goals for the first four months of the year and chase down taxpayers with debts owed to the state by resorting to measures such as repossessing homes and seizing money from bank accounts."
• "I don't have to worry about an eBook reader format changing, I don't have to worry about seller "repossessing" them and I can resell them if I need to."