freeze out

verb

froze out; frozen out; freezing out; freezes out
freeze-out noun

Examples of freeze out in a Sentence

a housing market that effectively freezes out people of moderate means
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Real estate investors are snapping up a bigger share of U.S. homes on the market as rising prices and stubbornly high borrowing costs freeze out many other would-be homebuyers. CBS News, 8 July 2025 Towards the end of the season, Ancelotti appeared to show more trust in Guler by putting him on the right side of the trident as Rodrygo was frozen out for key matches such as the Spanish top flight title-deciding episode of El Clasico won 4-3 by the Catalans in Montjuic. Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 5 July 2025 Still, according to research done by the house’s current landlords, Alta and Lamont Alexander, Carrington was subsequently frozen out by the real estate community for this project, the first house in this whites-only section of Austin built for a Black family. Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025 And ditto for tax exemptions which under our present laws are reserved for organizations promoting the public, and the all but total freezing out of conservative and libertarian professors certainly does not apply. Walter E Block, Oc Register, 21 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for freeze out

Word History

First Known Use

1861, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of freeze out was in 1861

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“Freeze out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/freeze%20out. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.

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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