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anaconda mortgage

anaconda mortgage noun: a loan arrangement in which all of the money borrowed from a lender, for whatever purpose, is secured by one's home, land, and other property.

Noun

anaconda mortgage (plural anaconda mortgages)

  1. (Southern, US, dated, idiomatic) A loan arrangement in which all of the money borrowed from a lender, for whatever purpose, is secured by one's home, land, and other property.
    • [I]t was not given to the prophet Isaiah even, to look down the vista of time for 2,500 years and read the Statutes of Arkansas. Under them every man who executes an anaconda mortgage is considered to plant and eat not; for them the heavens might as well be brass and the earth iron.1889, W. Scott Morgan, History of the Wheel and Alliance and the Impending Revolution, page 59
    • Furthermore, the merchants soon discovered the Anaconda mortgage, which forced the owner to back up his crop lien with everything he owned — land, money, and personal property.1988, Michael Schwartz, Radical Protest and Social Structure: The Southern Farmers' Alliance and Cotton Tenancy, 1880-1890, →ISBN, page 59

Synonyms of anaconda mortgage

Forms of anaconda mortgage

pluralanaconda mortgages

Origin of anaconda mortgage

An allusion to being trapped in the crushing coils of a large constrictor snake, such as an anaconda, suggesting the crushing burden of such debt.

Questions about anaconda mortgage

What does anaconda mortgage mean?
Anaconda mortgage means a loan arrangement in which all of the money borrowed from a lender, for whatever purpose, is secured by one's home, land, and other property.
What part of speech is anaconda mortgage?
Anaconda mortgage is a noun.
What is the plural of anaconda mortgage?
The plural of anaconda mortgage is anaconda mortgages.

Words near anaconda mortgage in the dictionary

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  5. anaconda
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  8. anacondae
  9. anacondas
  10. anacoracid
  11. anacoracids

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