cram

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The Durbin amendment, also known as the cram down bill, would have removed the mortgage exemption from bankruptcy proceedings, allowing bankruptcy judges some leeway to rewrite the terms of mortgages which in turn might prevent a lot of foreclosures.

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  1. transitive verb To force, press, or squeeze into an insufficient space; stuff.
  2. transitive verb To fill too tightly.
  3. transitive verb To gorge with food.
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  • My method is to pick out the most promising candidates for my academy during the indoctrination cram, and most of them wind up in the pits as simple dementia casters. —  SCOTT McGOUGH
  • The Fed and the Treasury should be focused on debt relief, mortgage cram-downs, jobs programs and open-ended support for state and local governments. —  CounterPunch
  • "ABA was not a participant in the recent agreement between Citigroup and Congressional proponents of mortgage cram-down legislation," said Floyd Stoner, the executive director Congressional relations & public policy at the ABA. —  pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator
  • The cram-down agreement reached yesterday may be the first of a growing set of evidence to support that argument. —  pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator
  • "ABA is opposed to the agreement because it will leave in place overly broad mortgage cram-down authority and other provisions that will harm thousands of banks across the country that have made, and continue to make, good loans." —  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English crammen, from Old English crammian; see ger- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English crammen, crommen (also cremmen, from Icelandic kremja), from Anglo-Saxon crammian, cram, stuff, = Icelandic kremja, squeeze, bruise, = Swedish krama, squeeze, press, strain, = Danish kramme, crush, crumple (cf. German krammen, claw); in form a secondary verb, from Anglo-Saxon crimman (preterit cramm, cram), press, bruise: see crim, and cf. cramp, crimp. Cf. Icelandic kramr, bruised, melted, half-thawed, = Swedish Norwegian kram, wet, clogged (applied to snow), from the same ult. source. Cf. clam, to which cram is related as cramp to clamp.
  2. from cram, v.
 

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