a housing market that effectively freezes out people of moderate means
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At 61/2, she was immediately branded a lesbian and frozen out.—Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 17 June 2026 Unions that back the wrong horse in a primary can get frozen out.—Heather Merrick, Hartford Courant, 11 June 2026 In the aftermath of 2020, Jones was stripped of a committee chairmanship and frozen out of Senate GOP leadership.—Shannon McCaffrey, AJC.com, 10 June 2026 Years of soaring home prices, especially in the early part of this decade when rock-bottom mortgage rates fueled a buying frenzy, have left many would-be homebuyers frozen out of the market.—ABC News, 9 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for freeze out
: 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 2transitive verb
: to subject to a freezeout
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