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  • Same as amortize, amortization, etc.

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  • verb Alternative form of amortize.

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  • verb liquidate gradually

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Examples

  • And as a loan, Roma do not have to amortise the fee over the course of the contract and can now avoid what would have been €8m a year in accounting charges over the next five years.

    FA set for club licensing power despite Premier League opposition 2011

  • Think about your salary, and amortise it over a reasonable period.

    Studying the Mandaeans: Sources and Questions James F. McGrath 2009

  • The new tenants are being put into occupation on probation; they are allotees of land and will not be able to claim possessive rights until the Land Commission is satisfied that they are capable farmers, and have proved their capacity to make productive use of th eland and furnish the regular payments that will amortise the purchase costs.

    G.K.'s Weekly - Land Policy of Ireland 2008

  • "Furthermore, ongoing success in the international wheel industry can only be achieved if you are right at the forefront of technology and design and are in a position to achieve manufacturing efficiency and economies of scale, coupled with continual improvement of quality at competitive prices ...... none of which is possible unless you are big enough to amortise the high levels of expenditure involved," says

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • You can talk about building roads and bridges as actual investment and as long as you amortise some of it you can capitalise some of it too, but nothing like at the current ratios.

    Thirty Million Musketeers 1995

  • The Land Bank has already also restructured its funding programme in order to amortise these debt obligations in March 1993.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • The establishing of a dissemination structure should be seen and communicated as an initial investment which will only begin to amortise after a certain duration.

    3. The biogas dissemination programme 1993

  • The Group's remaining consolidated public CDO CDO V continues to use cash generated by its collateral to service interest on senior and mezzanine notes with any excess cash being available solely for reinvestment or to buy back or amortise senior debt.

    Reuters: Press Release 2011

  • It's your call on what you can afford but I'd set it as high as possible so that you can amortise the risk over as many events as possible over your (one) life.

    The Cranky Flier Travel Insurance 2010

  • Benn added: 'Smaller batches and more set-ups mean that many companies no longer have the luxury to amortise the cost of bonded CBN wheels over extended production runs.

    Manufacturingtalk - manufacturing industry news 2010

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