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escrow

/noun es-kroh, ih-skroh; verb ih-skroh, es-kroh/US // noun ˈɛs kroʊ, ɪˈskroʊ; verb ɪˈskroʊ, ˈɛs kroʊ //UK // (ˈɛskrəʊ, ɛˈskrəʊ) law //

托管,代管,代管人,代管服务

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a contract, deed, bond, or other written agreement deposited with a third person, by whom it is to be delivered to the grantee or promisee on the fulfillment of some condition.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to place in escrow: The home seller agrees to escrow the sum of $1000 with his attorney.

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Examples

  • Investors’ funds were held in escrow for two years while Jiko pursued purchasing 63-year-old Mid-Central National Bank, based in Minnesota, a deal it consummated in September.

  • Ant began when Alibaba launched the Alipay payments app in 2004 as an escrow service for buyers and sellers on Ma’s e-commerce website.

  • When Prospect then missed the escrow deadline, the foundation began garnishing the company’s accounts and sought to have a receiver appointed over all its financial transactions.

  • The foundation sued, eventually extracting Prospect’s agreement to submit the matter to arbitration while putting the money into escrow.

  • Apple had started to amass the funding needed to pay the fine in an escrow account after the original ruling in 2016 but hadn’t commenced in doing so.

  • The president said that a BP “evergreen” escrow would be set up for claims and will be managed by a third party.

  • "An escrow of a billion-plus is only a down payment of the potential costs," said Miller.

  • Understand—all money that comes from the mine is held in escrow until this case is decided.

  • It must still remain in escrow as the bond of Harry until the case was decided, and that might mean years.

  • This would have meant forfeiting her marriage settlement and the sum that was in escrow.