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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Paul Mullin, under contract until 2027, is another whose future remains uncertain after also being frozen out these past couple of months. Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 9 May 2025 This requirement is the basis of the habitable zone, the region around a star where the radiation onto a planet isn't too little that all the water freezes out and isn't too much that the water boils away. Paul Sutter, Space.com, 21 Feb. 2025 That prospect has unsettled Ukrainian and European officials who fear being frozen out of negotiations between the U.S. and Russia. Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 16 Feb. 2025 January 29, 2025 4 min read 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 10 Jun. 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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