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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Jefferson County has 440 children across 330 households who were frozen out, after having more than 1,000 children on the waitlist through the summer, according to officials there. Nick Coltrain, The Denver Post, 16 Feb. 2025 Unless peace quickly comes to Ukraine and the International Olympic Committee and Moscow suddenly repair their long-fraught relationship, Russian athletes could be largely frozen out of their second consecutive Olympics. David K. Li, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2025 Victor, the striker signed in the summer to be backup to Lewandowski, is the other player potentially frozen out through no fault of his own. Nick Miller, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025 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 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 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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