单词 | mortgage |
释义 | noun | verb mortgagemortgage1 /ˈmɔrgɪdʒ/ ●○○ W3 noun [countable] a legal arrangement in which you borrow money from a bank in order to buy a house, and pay back the money over a period of years: mortgage on We still have a $180,000 mortgage on the house. The mortgage payment will be around a thousand dollars a month. Barb and Joe have taken out a mortgage on their first house. We paid off our mortgage (=finished paying for the mortgage) last September. [Origin: 1300–1400 Old French mort dead + gage promise] → see also second mortgage noun | verb mortgagemortgage2 verb [transitive] 1if you mortgage your home, land, or property, you borrow money, usually from a bank, and give the bank the right to own your property if you do not pay the money back: We mortgaged our house to start Paul’s business. Everything I own is mortgaged to the hilt (=the total amount that can be borrowed has been borrowed).2mortgage somebody’s future to do something that will make things very difficult for someone in the future: Our lack of respect for the environment is mortgaging our children’s future. |
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