mortgage

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  1. noun A temporary, conditional pledge of property to a creditor as security for performance of an obligation or repayment of a debt.
  2. noun A contract or deed specifying the terms of a mortgage.
  3. noun The claim of a mortgagee upon mortgaged property.
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  • Accessing, understanding and pro-actively addressing whats on your credit bureau before you apply for a mortgage is absolutely imperative. —  The XBroker
  • Besides a lower interest refinance rate, refinancing your mortgage is also a great way to cut down the terms of your loan repayment, at the same time still lowering your mortgage.
  • The bad news is that we are going with an FHA mortgage, and our mortgage will be above the .78 loan to value ratio after taking out the money for credit card / yard / hvac. —  Blogtimore, Hon
  • * Give home owners right of first refusal whenever their mortgage is about to sell - all they should need to do is match the price. —  Firedoglake
  • Anyone having trouble paying their mortgage is almost certainly late on their car or truck loans, too. —  Steve Parker, Motoring Journalist
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loan ·  insurance ·  equity ·  investment ·  finance ·  payment ·  bond ·  lend ·  consolidation ·  lease ·  cash ·  estate

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mortgage:   mortgages ·  mortgaged
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  1. Middle English morgage, from Old French : mort, dead (from Vulgar Latin *mortus, from Latin mortuus, past participle of morī, to die; see mer- in Indo-European roots) + gage, pledge (of Germanic origin).

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  1. Formerly also morgage; from Middle English mortgage, morgage, from Old French morgage, mortgaige, morgage, morouage, properly separate, mort gage, mortgage, French mortgage, literally a dead pledge, from mort, dead, + gage, a pledge: see mortand gage.
  2. from mortgage, n.
 

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