to amortize
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- verb
- /əˈmɔːrtaɪz/
- Specialized
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amortizar
- Because quite simply, losses on the first two movies are amortized into the cost of the franchise.
- amortize their debt
- amortized cost
- amortized over five years
So don't forget to amortize the refinancing costs.
- So don't forget to amortize the refinancing costs.
- If you produce content people like, there's your media cost and then there's your earned media cost that amortize down.
- And my buddy here, Tom Wheelwright, my accountant, tells me, OK, you can appreciate it, depreciate and amortize it.
- So it will be amortized, but not to like this is all community.
- And but the, the returns, I mean we just got a billion dollar return on a investment that we'd already amortized.
Examples
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The company will amortize the cost of the equipment over its useful life.
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Most respondents agreed that the 10-year contract period was too short for businesses, particularly new ones, to amortize large investments in equipment and infrastructure.
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We'll amortize the losses across the whole system.
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"Greater volume makes it easier to amortize the cost of mass marketing, which produces greater volume.
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The central device for this approach can be relatively expensive, but its cost can be amortized over a number of users.
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We've amortized the cost of the research over a 10-year period.
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Also, since these mappings are used many times by the algorithm, the cost of their generation is amortized by their multiple reuse.
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Variety explained that PRC films' thin margins were inadequate to amortize elaborate advertising costs under Eagle-Lion's management of the company.
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The first-year average cost per ton diverted was amortized over five years to arrive at an estimated average cost of $1.03.
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The composting model estimated the capital, operational, and maintenance costs—and amortized total processing costs—for facilities with varying capacities.
Academic text (1995)
Synonyms
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Repay all the money you owe on a loan
To reduce debt by paying off loans or selling things you own
Antonyms
How Fast
Surface Forms
Morphology
amortize = a + mort + ize
Although historically analyzable as a- + mort + -ize ('make death' of a debt), the modern meaning 'gradually pay off a debt' is not derivable by an average B1 learner from the component parts.
Etymology
The word amortize comes from Latin parts ad- 'to' and mortem 'death'. It meant 'to make dead', so to amortize a debt is to 'kill it off' little by little, the same idea you see in mortgage.