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  • verb Present participle of mortgage.

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Examples

  • The continued rate of growth is matched by a continued rate of increase in mortgaging that growth, through Consumer Credit and high level Housing mortgages.

    Bernanke on the Jobless Recovery, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • There was a little bit of shame in the idea of mortgaging the homestead, taking out a second mortgage.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • No. He's done so much to save Ford already, such as mortgaging the company early enough to avoid bankruptcy, that his place in Ford history is assured.

    Killing Mercury 2010

  • No. He's done so much to save Ford already, such as mortgaging the company early enough to avoid bankruptcy, that his place in Ford history is assured.

    Killing Mercury 2010

  • Drop mortgage plan, study other options: members to PCMC political spectrum has criticised the move of the civic body to obtain a loan of Rs 100 crore by 'mortgaging' its sewage treatment plant and garbage depot.

    WN.com - Articles related to Income ceiling for low-cost housing loans increased 2010

  • Drop mortgage plan, study other options: members to PCMC political spectrum has criticised the move of the civic body to obtain a loan of Rs 100 crore by 'mortgaging' its sewage treatment plant and garbage depot.

    WN.com - Articles related to Income ceiling for low-cost housing loans increased 2010

  • In previous years, the county has identified quick-fix sources of money such as mortgaging government buildings or depleting reserve funds, but 2009 is a different story, Sapp said.

    Gazette.com : 2008

  • Former eras have shown us English borrowing roughly equivalent to a bag of coins from Celtic; taking out a college loan with Scandinavian; mortgaging the penthouse and automobile to French and Latin; and bumming tobacco, coffee, and tea off hundreds of others.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Former eras have shown us English borrowing roughly equivalent to a bag of coins from Celtic; taking out a college loan with Scandinavian; mortgaging the penthouse and automobile to French and Latin; and bumming tobacco, coffee, and tea off hundreds of others.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • How are all these people with their hands out supposed to get their "check" if congress doesn't get a move on with mortgaging our children's (and grandchildren's) futures?

    Dem: Withholding info from Congress 'a serious breach' 2009

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