Escrowing

/ɛˈskroʊɪŋ/ verb

Definition

The present participle of escrow; the process of holding money or documents in escrow with a third party.

Etymology

From escrow as a verb, adding the -ing suffix to create the present participle form.

Kelly Says

The use of 'escrowing' as a verb shows how nouns become verbs in English—once something is essential to commerce, people start using it as a verb regardless of which part of speech it started as.

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