repoˈssessor, n. Chiefly U.S.
(riː-)
[f. repossess v. + -or.]
One who repossesses goods; spec. a person hired by a credit company to repossess an item when the purchaser defaults on payments.
| 1934 in Webster. 1956 Calif. Appellate Rep. 2nd Ser. CXLI. 694 [He] was a ‘car repossessor’ for a finance company. 1969 Stanford Law Rev. XXII. 33 If deficiency judgments were eliminated, the defaulting purchaser would be spared his own and the repossessor's court costs. 1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 4 July 5-c/3 A television repossessor, knowing that an 11-year-old girl was home alone, demanded angrily that she unlock the door. 1988 Philadelphia Inquirer 20 Nov. b1 Because I'm a repossessor there's a stigma attached to me. |