mortgage
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mort|gage1 W3 [ˈmo:gıdʒ US ˈmo:r-] n
[Date: 1300-1400; : Old French; Origin: mort 'dead' + gage 'promise']
1.) a legal arrangement by which you borrow money from a bank or similar organization in order to buy a house, and pay back the money over a period of years
▪ Your building society or bank will help arrange a mortgage.
▪ They've taken out a 30 year mortgage (=they will pay for their house over a period of 30 years) .
▪ We decided to use Fred's redundancy money to pay off the mortgage (=pay back all the money we borrowed for a mortgage) .
▪ Mortgage rates are set to rise again in the spring.
▪ She was having trouble meeting her mortgage payments .
2.) the amount of money you borrow in the form of a mortgage
▪ If you earn £20,000 per year, then you may be able to get a mortgage of £60,000.
mortgage 2
mortgage2 v [T]
1.) if you mortgage your home, land, or property, you borrow money, usually from a bank, and if you cannot pay back the money within a particular period of time, the bank has the right to sell your property in order to get the money you owe it
▪ We mortgaged our house to start Paul's business.
2.) mortgage the/sb's future
to borrow money or do something that is likely to cause problems in the future, that other people will have to deal with
▪ The report explains how governments are mortgaging their nations' futures.
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mortgage — (izg. mòrgidž) m DEFINICIJA term. poseban pravni institut engleskoga prava; hipoteka, zalog, založena imovina ETIMOLOGIJA engl. ← stfr. ← mort: mrtav (← lat. mortuus: mrtav) + gage: zalog, jamstvo … Hrvatski jezični portal
mortgage — [n] loan agreement contract, debt, deed, homeowner’s loan, pledge, title; concept 332 … New thesaurus
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