Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • That can be or is intended to be amortized or extinguished: as, a debt amortizable in ten years.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Capable of being cleared off, as a debt.

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  • adjective Capable of being amortized.

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Examples

  • We were not confiscating land; we merely proposed paying in 20 years, in the only way we could -- in bonds maturing in 20 years at 4.5 percent interest, amortizable year by year.

    CASTRO AT U.N. ASKS 'COLONIAL' REVOLT 1960

  • It was estimated that the construction of these four canals would require twenty years, the funds being furnished by a 4\% loan amortizable in ninety years.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various

  • Ha seguido la flojedad en los valores, perdiendo mucho el amortizable.

    Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) C. A. Toledano

  • Depreciation and amortization expense was approximately $200 million higher in second quarter 2011 compared to amounts previously forecast at the end of first quarter 2011 due to higher fair value assignments to certain amortizable intangible assets than originally estimated under business combination accounting.

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  • Those were amortizable over 15 years just like the customer list and "the brilliant way we arranged the cubicles", but they were ordinary income to the seller.

    Forbes.com: News Peter J Reilly 2011

  • Well there was a time when goodwill was not deductible, depreciable, amortizable, anythingable, it just sat there.

    Forbes.com: News Peter J Reilly 2011

  • Adobe's goodwill or amortizable intangible assets, changes in, or interpretations of, tax rules and regulations, Adobe's inability to attract and retain key personnel, impairment of

    Adobe Reports First Billion Dollar Quarter - Yahoo! Finance 2010

  • The amortizable intangible assets have useful lives not exceeding 3 years.

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  • $ 571,108 The amortizable intangible assets have useful lives not exceeding five years and a weighted average useful life of approximately 5 years.

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  • The intangible assets are all amortizable and have original for access to the HotJobs 'database.

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