Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete spelling of
mortgage .
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Examples
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This etymology, as understood by 17th-century attorneys, of the Old French term morgage, which we adopted, may well be correct.
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In Seattle women who sit on men's laps on buses or trains without placing a pillow between them face an automatic six-month jail term morgage and money
Sound Politics: Seattle Police Response Comes Under Fire - Again 2006
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Will doesn't understand that the one granting the morgage is the capitalist, not the borrower.
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Or the ability to send their children to college without taking out a second morgage.
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Thanks my husband and I work three jobs to support our family and you want us to pay somebody elses morgage too pc
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When morgage rates are as low as they are today, you are a fool if you pay off your mortgage.
Economists, Bridge, and National Savings, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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I think that getting rid of the morgage deduction and increasing the standard exemption (not the standard deduction, the standard exemption, look at your 1040 to see what the difference is) to something like $10K per exemption would be a wonderful thing.
Tax Simplification, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Or the ability to send their children to college without taking out a second morgage.
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If you don't have kids and you are saving well for your retirement and you have an emergency fund AND life happens fund, then attack that "only morgage."
Color of Money Live Michelle Singletary 2010
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They do "compete" with private morgage insurance providers and the advantage you cite is significant, leading them to dominate the market.
Regulation-exempt, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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