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arrestments

arrestments is the plural of arrestment.

Meaning of arrestment

Noun

arrestment (countable and uncountable, plural arrestments)

  1. The action of arresting (in any sense)
  2. (Scotland) The process that prohibits a debtor from making payment to the creditor until another debt due to the person making use of the arrestment by such creditor is paid.

Questions about arrestments

What is arrestments the plural of?
Arrestments is the plural of arrestment.

Words near arrestments in the dictionary

  1. arrestins
  2. arrestive
  3. arrestively
  4. arrestiveness
  5. arrestment
  6. arrestments
  7. arrestor
  8. arrestors
  9. arrests
  10. arret
  11. Arretine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: arrestments (page history and authors); arrestment (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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