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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
The law also requires people who solicit more than 10 applications to be registered to vote with the state, freezing out Missourians whose felony sentences bar them from casting ballots.
—Ashley Lopez, NPR, 16 May 2024
Like, talks about free speech and then freezes out journalists and stuff like that.
—CBS News, 17 Mar. 2024
But such stories were frozen out in favor of cowboys-and-Indians yarns, and shifting audiences throughout the 20th century influenced what kinds of Native American narratives were elevated and suppressed.
—Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
Moses Moody played tenacious on-ball defense on Lillard, freezing out Milwaukee’s offensive engine.
—Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2024
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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 10 Jun. 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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