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submortgages

submortgages is the plural of submortgage.

Meaning of submortgage

Noun

submortgage (countable and uncountable, plural submortgages)

  1. A secured loan whereby a mortgagee uses his interest in a mortgage as collateral on a loan with a third party, in effect transferring or assigning the mortgage thereto.
    • The amount secured by the submortgage can never exceed the amount secured by the original mortgage.2016, David Osborne, Graeme Bowtle & Charles Buss, chapter 3, in The Law of Ship Mortgages, page 61

Questions about submortgages

What is submortgages the plural of?
Submortgages is the plural of submortgage.

Words near submortgages in the dictionary

  1. submorphology
  2. submortality
  3. submortgage
  4. submortgagee
  5. submortgagees
  6. submortgages
  7. submotif
  8. submotifs
  9. submotivation
  10. submotivations
  11. submotive

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