Definitions for mortgage

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mortgage mort·gage

Spelling: [mawr-gij]

IPA: /ˈmɔr gɪdʒ/

Mortgage is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 282 anagrams from letters in mortgage (aeggmort).

Definitions for mortgage

noun

1. a conveyance of an interest in property as security for the repayment of money borrowed.
2. the deed by which such a transaction is effected.
3. the rights conferred by it, or the state of the property conveyed.

verb (used with object)

1. Law. to convey or place (real property) under a mortgage.
2. to place under advance obligation; pledge:

Origin of mortgage

1350-1400; earlier morgage, Middle English Old French mortgage, equivalent to mort dead (Latin mortuus) + gage pledge, gage¹

Examples for mortgage

That summer, the CFPB used online feedback to redesign the mortgage disclosure form.

That's all we want the new marsh for--just to clear off the mortgage.

Many a holder of a second mortgage has been left to hold the sack.

She also insists she was not “financially involved” with the down payment or mortgage payments on the property.

In a few sentences, as though discussing the closing of a mortgage, they have given away France.

It's Bill that bled me, and bled me until I've had to soak a mortgage on the ranch.

"He wants to talk with you about a mortgage," I said bluntly.

After that, Sloan became “cash-poor” and was unable to afford the mortgage for her $1.4 million Manhattan apartment.

Using the diet will, according to low-fat diet doctor Dean Ornish, “mortgage your health.”

Father can't refuse to mortgage; why doesn't he write to me?