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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Although the freeze wasn’t slated to take effect until 5 p.m. Tuesday, some organizations saw an immediate impact — at least 20 states, including New York, reported being frozen out of Medicaid reimbursement portals, James said. Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 28 Jan. 2025 A day later, Ohio State’s throttling of Tennessee froze out the conference-level implications of those takes. Scott Dochterman, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025 Rashford has been omitted from the past four squads and, when a player is frozen out that way, the lesson of history is that the story rarely gets a happy ending. Daniel Taylor, The Athletic, 29 Dec. 2024 Cutter Gauthier, the No. 5 overall pick of the Philadelphia Flyers in the 2022 draft, who then froze out the organization a little more than a year ago before a trade to the Anaheim Ducks, will play the first game of his career at Wells Fargo Center in South Philadelphia on Saturday. Kevin Kurz, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for freeze out 

Word History

First Known Use

1861, in the meaning defined above

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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 10 Feb. 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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