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mortgage

Syllables: mort·gageUK/ˈmɔːɡɪd͡ʒ/

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Australia/ˈmoːɡɪd͡ʒ/

mortgage noun: a legal agreement in which a borrower pledges real property as collateral for a loan used to purchase or refinance that property.

Noun

mortgage (countable and uncountable, plural mortgages)

  1. A legal agreement in which a borrower pledges real property as collateral for a loan used to purchase or refinance that property.
    • The appriser, therefore, (as the holder of a mortgage was then called,) entered upon possession, and in the language of Hotspur, "came me cranking in," and cut the family out of another monstrous cantle of their remaining property.1815, Walter Scott, Guy Mannering, Or, The Astrologer, Volume 1, page 19
  2. (obsolete) The state of being pledged.
    • lands given in mortgage

Verb

mortgage (third-person singular simple present mortgages, present participle mortgaging, simple past and past participle mortgaged)

  1. (transitive) To borrow against a property, to obtain a loan for another purpose by giving away the right of seizure to the lender over a fixed property such as a house or piece of land; to pledge a property in order to get a loan.
    • to mortgage a property, an estate, or a shop
    • We mortgaged our house in order to start a company.
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To pledge and make liable; to make subject to obligation; to achieve an immediate result by paying for it in the long term.
    • She mortgaged her future for the pleasures of the relationship with the sculptor, a relationship she knew would be short.1982, Verne Moberg, The Truth and Work of Victoria Benedictsson, page 72
    • Like a latter-day Faustus who has mortgaged his soul to the pursuit of his art, Harrison now desperately craves the paternal love from which his learning has estranged him.2001, Antony Rowland, Tony Harrison and the Holocaust, page 193

mortgage meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

mortgage in Hindi

special form of secured loan
रेहन rehan, रहन rahan, बंधक bandhak, गिरवी girvī
to borrow against a property
गिरवी girvī, रेहन rehan

mortgage in Tamil

அடைமானம், அடைமானம் வை, ஈடு, ஈடுவை, ஒற்றி, அடமானம்

mortgage in Marathi

गहाण ठेवी, गहाण ठेवणे

mortgage in Urdu

special form of secured loan
رَہْن rahn, گِرْوی girvī
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mortgage in Bengali
বন্ধক, রেহান, মট্গেজ, বন্ধক রাখা
mortgage in Telugu
కుదువ kuduva
mortgage in Malayalam
പണയം paṇayaṁ
mortgage in Kannada
ಈಡು, ಅಡವು, ಆಧಾರ, ಅಡಮಾನ
mortgage in Punjabi
ਗਿਰਵੀ ਰੱਖਿਆ, ਗਿਰਵੀ ਰੱਖਣਾ
mortgage in Gujarati
ગીરવવું gīravvũ
mortgage in Odia
ବନ୍ଧକ, ବନ୍ଧକ ରଖିବା
mortgage in Nepali
धितो, धितो हाल्ने, धितो गर्न
mortgage in Pashto
رهن rahn, ګرو graw
mortgage in Arabic
رَهْن rahn, رَهْن عَقَارِيّ rahn ʕaqāriyy
mortgage in Malay
gadai janji
mortgage in Indonesian
hipotek
mortgage in Thai
จำนอง jam-nɔɔng
mortgage in Vietnamese
quyền cầm cố, cầm cố

Examples of mortgage in a sentence

  • For homeowners with adjustable rate mortgages, rising interest will really bite.
  • Paying the mortgage every month is a millstone round their necks.
  • We've been underwater on our mortgage ever since the housing crash.

All 40 example sentences with mortgage

Forms of mortgage

Noun
pluralmortgages
alternative formmorgage
Verb
third-person singular presentmortgages
present participlemortgaging
past participlemortgaged
pastmortgaged

Past tense of mortgage: mortgaged

Plural of mortgage: mortgages

Origin of mortgage

From Middle English morgage and Middle French mortgage, from Anglo-Norman morgage, from Old French mort gage (“dead pledge”), after a translation of judicial Medieval Latin mortuum wadium, with wadium from Frankish *wadi (“wager, pledge”). Compare gage and also wage. So called because rents and profits from the land were owed to the lender for as long as the gage existed (comparable to interest on a loan today), as opposed to the living gage, in which rents and profits automatically reduced the debt (paying it off over time).

Words formed from mortgage

Phrases with mortgage

Questions about mortgage

What does mortgage mean?
Mortgage means a legal agreement in which a borrower pledges real property as collateral for a loan used to purchase or refinance that property.
What is mortgage in Hindi?
Mortgage in Hindi is रेहन (rehan), रहन (rahan), बंधक (bandhak). See Mortgage meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is mortgage?
Mortgage can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce mortgage?
Mortgage is pronounced /ˈmɔːɡɪd͡ʒ/ (UK).
What is the plural of mortgage?
The plural of mortgage is mortgages.

Words near mortgage in the dictionary

  1. Mortensen
  2. Mortenson
  3. Mortensons
  4. Mortg.
  5. mortgagable
  6. mortgage
  7. mortgage belt
  8. mortgage belts
  9. mortgage bond
  10. mortgage bonds
  11. mortgage burner

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mortgage (page history and authors); mortgage (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mortgage (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mortgage (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); కుదువ (Telugu) (page history and authors); mortgage (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mortgage (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ગીરવવું (Gujarati) (page history and authors); mortgage (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mortgage (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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