How to Use receivership in a Sentence

receivership

noun
  • Years of financial difficulty eventually placed the company into receivership.
  • The mall was in receivership at the time of this week's sale, Tash said.
    Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 4 May 2022
  • The idea of receivership for the schools gives me pause for many reasons, but hubris is high on the list.
    Adrian Walker, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2022
  • The Master fell into receivership, and soon the Horches and the Roerichs were on the outs.
    Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 12 Nov. 2021
  • At that point they should have been placed in receivership.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2020
  • The city moved to place the buildings in receivership out of concern for the health and safety of the tenants.
    Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Dorsey will soon ask the receivership court to give the town control of the property.
    Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Apr. 2022
  • In the case of the bank going into receivership, this is bad news for the bank’s investors.
    Lucy Brewster, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The bank's deposits will now be locked up in receivership.
    Ken Sweet, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Vasquez said at the meeting that the receivership mutes the voices of students and parents.
    BostonGlobe.com, 21 Oct. 2021
  • The receivership authorizes Collins to make $350 an hour for his work.
    Eric Heisig, cleveland, 18 Mar. 2021
  • After the building went into receivership, it was sold to Rupe & Son Inc. of Dallas in the 1930s.
    Madison Iszler, San Antonio Express-News, 3 May 2022
  • The pair petitioned a judge to put the trust’s 29 buildings under a receivership led by Mark Adams.
    Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2023
  • The receivership has been starved for funds in part because the buildings get little rental income.
    Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Now the city plans to take the owner to court in order to put the building in a receivership so someone can buy the property and fix it up, Hall said.
    Gustavo Solis, sandiegouniontribune.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Modern Times Beer out of receivership for $15.3 million, with the takeover on track to close in late October.
    Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 July 2022
  • Those creditors now have a seat at the table as the receivership unfolds.
    Harold Brubaker, Philly.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Crime was high, the city was just a few years out of bankruptcy, and the school system had recently emerged from state receivership.
    Shane Bauer, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Board members — who would need to vote to approve a state receivership — appeared in no hurry to call the question.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2022
  • Arkansas seized two of 21, getting court orders to place the pair in receivership -- the first time the state took over a nursing home in nearly 30 years.
    Eric Besson, Arkansas Online, 21 Dec. 2021
  • The agreement will be filed in the Ohio federal court overseeing the receivership.
    Clare Spaulding, chicagotribune.com, 28 Feb. 2022
  • At the same time, bank stocks teetered on Friday after SVB was put into receivership in the wake of falling deposits.
    By Alicia Wallace, Krystal Hur, Allison Morrow, Hanna Ziady, Anna Cooban and Matt Egan, CNN, 10 Mar. 2023
  • After the lawsuit, the school went into court receivership.
    Michael Alison Chandler, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2017
  • The city’s bill for the receivership is at least $37 million, though some of that amount is expected to be repaid once the sales approved Wednesday close.
    Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2024
  • The indictment said Stochel would cause delays any time he was asked for an accounting of the receivership fund.
    Jim Masters, Post-Tribune, 4 May 2017
  • The $1 fine is because the facility is in receivership, DPH said.
    courant.com, 23 Mar. 2018
  • The district later was put into receivership and a new board was elected.
    Dale Kasler, Phillip Reese and Ryan Sabalow, sacbee, 1 June 2018
  • In early 2012, the mall lost anchor tenant Macy’s and was in receivership.
    John Benson, cleveland, 4 Dec. 2019
  • Murdaugh has nothing to gain by setting the record straight, the lawyers contend, because all his assets are in a receivership.
    Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 17 May 2023
  • Zoom in: Shapiro offered a laundry list of reasons why receivership is necessary.
    Steph Solis, Axios, 9 July 2024

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