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mortgaging

mortgaging noun: the act by which something is mortgaged. Also the present participle and gerund of mortgage.

Noun

mortgaging (plural mortgagings)

  1. The act by which something is mortgaged.
    • Her road had again seemed to stretch out endless, she imagined that there might be hundreds and hundreds of such things that Edward was concealing from her – that they might necessitate more mortgagings, more pawnings of bracelets, more and always more horrors.1915, Ford Madox Hueffer [i.e., Ford Madox Ford], chapter V, in The Good Soldier […], Harmondsworth, Middlesex [London]: Penguin Books, published 1972 (1982 printing), →ISBN, part I, page 63

Also used as

mortgaging is also the present participle and gerund of mortgage.

Forms of mortgaging

pluralmortgagings

Origin of mortgaging

From mortgage + -ing.

Questions about mortgaging

What does mortgaging mean?
Mortgaging means the act by which something is mortgaged.
What part of speech is mortgaging?
Mortgaging is a noun.
What is the plural of mortgaging?
The plural of mortgaging is mortgagings.

Words near mortgaging in the dictionary

  1. mortgageor
  2. mortgageors
  3. mortgager
  4. mortgagers
  5. mortgages
  6. mortgaging
  7. mortgagings
  8. mortgagor
  9. mortgagors
  10. Morthen
  11. morthouse

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