Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective burdened with legal or financial obligations.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
mortgage .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective burdened with legal or financial obligations
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Examples
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To her, novel ideas meant the overthrow of succession of crops, ruin under the name of improvements and methods; in short, mortgaged lands as the inevitable result of experiments.
Beatrix 1839
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To her, novel ideas meant the overthrow of succession of crops, ruin under the name of improvements and methods; in short, mortgaged lands as the inevitable result of experiments.
Beatrix Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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His estate, which has been long mortgaged, is taken from him; and poverty and disgrace await him!
The Coquette, or, The History of Eliza Wharton: A Novel Founded on Fact 1797
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Because today 70 percent of our new debt is being purchased by foreign lenders, 50 percent of our public debt is held by foreign lenders, and that means America's being mortgaged, which is not good for our economy.
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Except this time, U.S. banks aren't selling packages of so-called mortgaged-backed securities to investors; the banks are selling "credit cardholder debt" to investors.
Indymedia Ireland 2009
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Except this time, U.S. banks aren't selling packages of so-called mortgaged-backed securities to investors; the banks are selling "credit cardholder debt" to investors.
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NEW DELHI: Hitting back at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for his attack on the Left, the CPM on Friday alleging his government had "mortgaged" India's foreign policy for Indo-US civil nuclear deal.
The Times of India 2009
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Mark had mortgaged everything they owned to buy Rutherford International.
Fatal Error J.A. Jance 2011
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It had escaped being mortgaged along with everything else, because the lending officer from the bank had claimed it was essentially worthless.
Fatal Error J.A. Jance 2011
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With bank-bond spreads and costs of credit-default swaps having risen so sharply since July, profitability is going to be squeezed with every bond and every interbank loan that matures, and an ever-greater share of assets is going to have to be mortgaged to keep the funding base stable.
For French Banks, Problems Abound Geoffrey Smith 2011
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