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Receivership   /rɪsˈivərʃˌɪp/  /risˈivərʃˌɪp/   Listen
Receivership

noun
1.
The state of property that is in the hands of a receiver.
2.
A court action that places property under the control of a receiver during litigation so that it can be preserved for the benefit of all.
3.
The office of a receiver.






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"Receivership" Quotes from Famous Books



... extensions, and it was said to have overreached itself; there were whispers that its officers had been speculating, that the Company would be unable to meet the next quarterly payment upon its bonds, that a receivership would be necessary. There were hints that the concern was to be taken over by the Trust, but this was vigorously denied by ...
— The Moneychangers • Upton Sinclair

... reference to all these matters are published annually in the report of the general receiver of Dominican customs. Since the establishment of the receivership full and accurate trade statistics have become available for the first time in the history of the Republic. Before 1891 no statistics at all were kept. During the nineties there was an attempt at compilation, but the corruption in the custom-houses ...
— Santo Domingo - A Country With A Future • Otto Schoenrich

... them. To sell short, margin, bull, bear, lamb. Proscenium, apron, flies, baby spot, strike. Fold in eggs, bring to a boil, simmer, percolate, to French. File, post, carry forward, remit, credit, receivership. Baste, hem, rip, overcast, ...
— Public Speaking • Clarence Stratton

... The situation is admittedly dangerous; and it is imperative that a speedy remedy be sought; for the heirs and assigns of an estate which has been mismanaged to the brink of bankruptcy must secure at all costs that no public receivership is made. ...
— The Fight For The Republic in China • Bertram Lenox Putnam Weale

... Mr. Grewgious. She was wooed, not won, and they went their several ways. But an Arbitration being blown towards him by some unaccountable wind, and he gaining great credit in it as one indefatigable in seeking out right and doing right, a pretty fat Receivership was next blown into his pocket by a wind more traceable to its source. So, by chance, he had found his niche. Receiver and Agent now, to two rich estates, and deputing their legal business, in an amount worth having, to a firm of solicitors on the floor below, he had snuffed ...
— The Mystery of Edwin Drood • Charles Dickens

... grand idea," said Coleman; "how came you ever to think of it? But, my dear Lawless, are you really in earnest about the receivership?" ...
— Frank Fairlegh - Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil • Frank E. Smedley

... was but a truce, however, and did not settle the troubles of the Erie. Jay Gould was now becoming a dominating factor and in October of 1868 was chosen president. The various stock-market struggles that ensued from the ascendency of Jay Gould to the receivership of the Erie in 1875 is a long and intricate tale. Suffice it to say that the events were generally similar to those already recounted—stock-market corners, over-issues of bonds and stocks, injunctions, court orders, arrests, ...
— The Railroad Builders - A Chronicle of the Welding of the States, Volume 38 in The - Chronicles of America Series • John Moody

... told what she had overheard about the proposed receivership, and all four now—Balcom, Doctor Q, Dora, and ...
— The Master Mystery • Arthur B. Reeve and John W. Grey

... Surely, with you, I need not dwell on the A B C's of twentieth century railroading. It is the road that can handle the tonnage cheapest that will survive. All this we knew, and I told him to put me out on this division. It was during the receivership and there was no room ...
— The Daughter of a Magnate • Frank H. Spearman



Words linked to "Receivership" :   place, berth, receiver, law, legal proceeding, jurisprudence, proceedings, proceeding, state, billet, position, spot, post, situation, office



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