0 present participle of repossess --
1 to take back possession of something, especially property that has not been completely paid for: --
I couldn't make my mortgage repayments so the bank repossessed my house.
At the same time, there certainly should be means of repossessing residential premises that have been wrongly occupied.
In our own particular case it might open the possibility of repossessing for the community step by step what had been given away in 1972.
None the less, it gives the landlord a good prospect of repossessing the dwelling in which he hopes to live.
Where the mortgagors have left because they have been intimidated, or whatever, there is no point in repossessing the property and trying to sell it.
That is repossessing what we should never have lost.
He would be unable therefore to prevent the owners of such goods from repossessing their property.
Certainly we would not have had a force capable of repossessing the islands or of defeating a full-scale attack.
We shall go through with the necessary means of repossessing the islands as a whole.