to mortgage
21
5.7
- verb
- /ˈmɔrɡɪdʒ/
- Specialized
- In order to start his business, he had to mortgage his property for financial backing.
- mortgage their assets
- mortgage our future
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Watch on YouTubeLet's need that whole operation, you know, mortgage the future.
- Let's need that whole operation, you know, mortgage the future.
- He in fact mortgaged Mickey Mouse to fund Snow White.
- So that's where I got the competitive edge was that I was willing to take loans out, you know, re mortgage my house to buy these things.
- Unbeknownst to them, using those credit cards will cause them to mortgage their future and become debt slaves for the next decade.
- But it's it's not, I don't think this is, I don't think it's good to mortgage everybody who's just going through college and Graduate School.
- You do not even know that you exist, so the basis of your existence itself is attention, and this attention need not be mortgaged to anything.
Examples
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It doesn't mean you go mortgage your home to go start this thing, but it's a good idea.
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And I'm going to mortgage my house and take a step into the unknown.
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We have to mortgage the house.
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We had to mortgage the house a bit to keep up.
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I had to mortgage my house.
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You want me to mortgage my house to invest in a scheme of yours?
Fiction book (1990) -
And you mortgaged it for him?
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I suppose you'd have to mortgage a chunk of the land to pay me.
Fiction book (1993) -
This year I had to mortgage the ranch so I could keep up my life insurance, so I could borrow on my insurance…
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She mortgaged her house.
Antonyms
Phrasal Verbs
1
5.3
To replace a current home loan with a new one to get lower monthly payments or a lower interest rate
Compounds
- Specialized
18
3.2
A loan to buy a house or other property that you pay back over time
- Specialized
10
7.2
An investment made from many home loans that pays interest and loan repayments to investors sometimes backed by the government
- Specialized
4
5.1
A loan on a house that must be paid before other loans if the owner cannot pay
1
6.3
A US company created by the government that buys and guarantees home loans to help the mortgage market
1
6.0
A US company backed by the government that buys home loans to help banks lend more
- Formal
1
7.1
A document that says a bank can take your property if you do not pay back a loan
1
9.5
A loan in which the lender can take your property, like a car or machine, if you do not repay
How Encumbered
6
7.6
- Specialized
21
5.7
- Specialized
- Formal
110
4.4
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mortgage as a verb shares the same origin: 'dead' (mort) + 'pledge' (gage). To 'mortgage' property is to give it as that kind of pledge that 'dies' when you repay the loan or can be taken if you do not, so the origin helps explain the verb's meaning.