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anaconda mortgages

anaconda mortgages is the plural of anaconda mortgage.

Meaning of anaconda mortgage

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

Questions about anaconda mortgages

What is anaconda mortgages the plural of?
Anaconda mortgages is the plural of anaconda mortgage.

Words near anaconda mortgages in the dictionary

  1. anacoluthon
  2. anacoluthons
  3. anacoluths
  4. anaconda
  5. anaconda mortgage
  6. anaconda mortgages
  7. anacondae
  8. anacondas
  9. anacoracid
  10. anacoracids
  11. Anacortes

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