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replevy

/ɹɪˈplɛvi/

replevy verb: to return goods to their rightful owner by replevin; to recover goods.

Verb

replevy (third-person singular simple present replevies, present participle replevying, simple past and past participle replevied)

  1. To return goods to their rightful owner by replevin; to recover goods.
  2. (UK, obsolete) To bail.
    • I humbly crave your Majestie / It to replevie , and my Sonne reprive1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Noun

replevy

  1. replevin

Forms of replevy

third-person singular presentreplevies
present participlereplevying
past participlereplevied
pastreplevied

Origin of replevy

Old French replevir (“recover”), from re- + plevir (probably from a Germanic source which also gave pledge).

Words formed from replevy

Words that rhyme with replevy

Questions about replevy

What does replevy mean?
Replevy means to return goods to their rightful owner by replevin; to recover goods.
What part of speech is replevy?
Replevy can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce replevy?
Replevy is pronounced /ɹɪˈplɛvi/.
What is the past tense of replevy?
The past tense of replevy is replevied.

Words near replevy in the dictionary

  1. replevining
  2. replevins
  3. replevisable
  4. replevisor
  5. replevisors
  6. replevy
  7. replevying
  8. repliant
  9. repliants
  10. replica
  11. replicabilities

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