Meaning

3 senses

  1. A right to take possession of a debtor’s property as security until a debt or duty is discharged.

    Zurückbehaltungsrecht, Retentionsrecht

    зало́говое пра́воzalógovoje právo, зало́гzalóg

  2. (obsolete)Tendon

  3. (obsolete, possibly, uncommon)Spleen (a ductless vascular gland)

Examples

2 sentences

  1. There's a lien on my house.

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  2. The interplanetary bank placed a lien on Tom's space cruiser.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
right to take and hold debtor’s property:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
right to take and hold debtor’s property:

Origin

Borrowed from Middle French lien, from Latin ligāmen (“bond”), from ligō (“tie, bind”). B

Borrowed from Middle French lien, from Latin ligāmen (“bond”), from ligō (“tie, bind”).

Borrowed from Latin liēn (“spleen”). Doublet of spleen.

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Forms

plural: liens / lienes
Singularlien
Pluralliens / lienes

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
milt

Word family

16 related words
Relatedlienallienic
Derivedaccountant's lienagricultural lienarchitect's lienattorney's lienbanker's lienblanket lienlienablelienedlienholderlienholdinglienorliensmanmechanic's lienvendor's lien

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
lidB2lieA2lieulieutenantlifeA1

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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