How to Use forfeiture in a Sentence

forfeiture

noun
Definition of forfeiturenext
Synonyms for forfeiturenext
  • The yacht is now going through the forfeiture process in court.
    — Aruna Viswanatha, WSJ, 6 June 2022
  • The company has agreed to pay $778 million in fines and forfeiture as part of the plea deal.
    — Robert Legare, CBS News, 18 Oct. 2022
  • And the oligarchs can, of course, contest both the seizure and any forfeiture in court, with the cases often dragging on for years.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2022
  • The indictment also seeks forfeiture of the handgun and $1,020 seized from Davis at the time of his arrest.
    — courant.com, 19 Jan. 2022
  • He was then found to be driving on a license forfeiture.
    — Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 11 Mar. 2022
  • The house on Randall Mill is now subject to forfeiture and sale by the government.
    — Danny Robbins, ajc, 7 Oct. 2022
  • As part of its guilty plea, Lafarge agreed to pay nearly $800 million in fines and forfeiture to the United States.
    — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Home, as part of its $1.6 billion forfeiture claim of assets.
    — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Haines said that both appeared in court Wednesday, but Lane was removed from the complaint for forfeiture.
    — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Moreno said his players are handling the forfeiture well and already were in the weight room Thursday to get ready for summer baseball.
    — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 13 May 2022
  • But the sixth — to seize the store’s business equipment for forfeiture — was highly unusual.
    — Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2022
  • As part of a plea agreement, Shah will pay $6.5 million in forfeiture and up to $9.5 million in restitution.
    — Kara Scannell, CNN, 11 July 2022
  • Scurry-Rosser plays Mildred this to close out its regular season and clinched a playoff berth and the No. 2 seed due to the forfeiture.
    — Dallas News, 24 Oct. 2022
  • About the long fingers of politicians, Will rightly devotes a lot of space to the horror that is civil asset forfeiture.
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
  • The plea agreement also calls for the forfeiture of 18 homes the brothers bought in Northeast Ohio, including nine in Euclid.
    — Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Bids were obtained for the three vehicles purchased from the asset forfeiture funds.
    — Carrie Napoleon, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The seizure of Tango was the first asset forfeiture resulting from the KleptoCapture task force’s work.
    — John Hyatt, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The state’s forfeiture law allows police to seize money, property, and other assets that might be linked to a crime.
    — Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The forfeiture request also allows the government to seize property, such as a home, if Ravenell can’t pay back the money.
    — Baltimore Sun, 13 May 2022
  • Castillo had a bond forfeiture warrant related to a charge of indecency with a child at the time of the shooting, police said.
    — Hojun Choi, Dallas News, 6 Mar. 2023
  • According to the plea deal, besides the $1.5 billion forfeiture, Salame will make restitution of $5.6 million to FTX debtors.
    — Kara Scannell, CNN, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The Free Press highlighted the forfeiture amount, minus the fine, after that portion was listed in a court filing Thursday.
    — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 3 June 2022
  • Locating the men to serve them with notice of the civil forfeiture lawsuits has proven difficult.
    — Kevin Krause, Dallas News, 13 June 2023
  • Higher balances mean more money is at risk of forfeiture.
    — Ashlea Ebeling, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Because that amount would ensure that the government would make money on each forfeiture.
    — Andrew Wimer, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
  • The mass forfeiture, which could have netted federal law enforcement well over $100 million, ground to a halt thanks to IJ’s lawsuit.
    — Andrew Wimer, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Pentalow said former Police Chief James Cetran came to the council with the proposal to use the forfeiture fund to pay for the vehicles as a part of a pilot program.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 17 Sep. 2022
  • The two each entered not guilty pleas last week on 23 of the 24 counts, and denied one count of criminal forfeiture, according to online federal court records.
    — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Feb. 2023
  • The total amount of forfeiture, and her prison sentence, will be determined by a federal judge when the plea is formalized later this month.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 3 Mar. 2022
  • They were sold in 2015 during a government forfeiture auction and a slew of lawsuits followed after NASA refused to give them up.
    — Asha C. Gilbert, USA TODAY, 15 Apr. 2022

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