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Examples of freeze out in a Sentence
a housing market that effectively freezes out people of moderate means
Recent Examples on the Web
But the candidates’ approaches to—and reasoning for—freezing out China differ.
—Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
Artists and concert halls that don’t want to play ball have reason to fear they’ll be frozen out.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 24 May 2024
These are wavelike ripples in the density of matter that froze out from the fiery plasma filling the universe in the first 300,000 years or so after the big bang, and they’re thought to have influenced where galaxies subsequently formed.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 8 Nov. 2023
But with the support of just 73 lawmakers, Sadr tried to form a coalition government with the Sunni and the Kurdish factions and freeze out his Shiite opponents.
—Mohamad Bazzi, Foreign Affairs, 13 Sep. 2022
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Word History
First Known Use
1861, in the meaning defined above
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“Freeze out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/freeze%20out. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.
Legal Definition
freezeout
1 of 2 noun
freeze·out
ˈfrēz-ˌau̇t
: a corporate action (as a merger) taken by those in control of the corporation (as controlling shareholders or the board of directors) for the purpose of causing the minority shareholders to lose their equity in the corporation (as by the sale of their shares) compare squeezeout
freeze out
2 of 2 transitive verb
: to subject to a freezeout
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