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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
Roman Polanski’s film An Officer and a Spy is to receive its UK premiere, five years after winning the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, and despite being frozen out of the UK and American film market due to the director’s criminal past.
—Caroline Frost, Deadline, 19 Oct. 2024
The Rising Stars game began as the Rookie Challenge in 1994, putting the league’s newest players on display for several years until the 1999 lockout froze out the 1998 class that starred Vince Carter, Paul Pierce and Dirk Nowitzki.
—Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 1 Oct. 2024
That could freeze out third parties that want to test the validity of a patent early in the drug development process.
—Victoria Knight, Axios, 18 Sep. 2024
Environmentalists, who object to the removal of trees from Capitol Park to accommodate the annex, are also frozen out.
—Joe Mathews, The Mercury News, 31 Aug. 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 Nov. 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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