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Definition of 'lien'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) lien
the legal right to hold another's property or to have it sold or applied for payment of a claim, esp. to satisfy a debt.

Etymology: (1525–35; < AF, OF < L ligāmen tie, bandage =ligā(re) to tie +-men n. suffix of result)

Definition of 'lien'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) lien
the right to take another's property if an obligation is not discharged

2. (noun) spleen, lien
a large dark-red oval organ on the left side of the body between the stomach and the diaphragm; produces cells involved in immune responses

Definition of 'lien'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) lien
a legal claim; a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty; a right in one to control or hold and retain the property of another until some claim of the former is paid or satisfied

2. lien
of Lie

3. lien
of Lie. See Lain

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