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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On the opposite end, Mars is essentially frozen out, with all of its water locked up in polar ice caps and under the surface. Paul Sutter, Space.com, 21 Feb. 2025 Not even frigid temperatures could freeze out Lionel Messi during Wednesday night’s Concacaf Champions Cup match. Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 20 Feb. 2025 Donald Trump weighed in directly for the first time on his efforts to freeze out the Associated Press from White House events because the news service declined to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. Ted Johnson, Deadline, 18 Feb. 2025 Whereas presidents in the post–World War II era generally put a high value on scientific expertise, Trump seems intent on freezing out professional scientists, especially those with strong academic research backgrounds. Michael S. Lubell, Scientific American, 29 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 19 Mar. 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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