amortize

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Excluding all the intangibles that we have to amortize, they should be, just from their normal operations, sort of an operating percentage similar to what we get in the SATCOM business, which is a mid-teens kind of number.

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  1. transitive verb To liquidate (a debt, such as a mortgage) by installment payments or payment into a sinking fund.
  2. transitive verb To write off an expenditure for (office equipment, for example) by prorating over a certain period.

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  • Previously, based upon our initial estimates, preliminary estimate when we completed the transaction, on the various different pieces it would qualify for intangible accounting, some of that's been shifted to goodwill that doesn't get amortize. —  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
  • The Republicans in Congress have abandoned their principles and the Country is facing an enormous debt that it will never be able to amortize. —  digg.com: Stories / Popular
  • Naturally the solution needed to be able to schedule personnel, equipment, rooms, and resources easily and efficiently but above all it also had to be able to aggregate and amortize costs associated with individual programming and creative services productions. —  Creative COW News
  • SBA spokesman Frank Brancale said smallbusiness loans allow firms to amortize the purchase over 25 years, resulting in significantly reduced monthly payments that free cash flow for other investments. —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • Clearly with the changing in rules it seems like deals are going to become more costly from an amortization standpoint both writing off deal costs and also an upward bias on what you have to amortize. —  Software Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha
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  1. Middle English amortisen, to alienate in mortmain, from Old French amortir, amortiss-, from Vulgar Latin *admortīre, to deaden : Latin ad-, ad- + Latin mors, mort-, death; see mer- in Indo-European roots.
 

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