Mortgage

Noun

 * 1) A special form of secured loan where the purpose of the loan must be specified to the lender, to purchase assets that must be fixed (not movable) property such as a house or piece of farm land. The assets are registered as the legal property of the borrower but the lender can seize them and dispose of them if they are not satisfied with the manner in which the repayment of the loan is conducted by the borrower. Once the loan is fully repaid, the lender loses this right of seizure and the assets are then deemed to be unencumbered.

Verb

 * 1) As in "to mortgage a property", to borrow against a property, to obtain a loan for another purpose by giving away the right of seizure to the lender over a fixed property such as a house or piece of land.

Related terms

 * mortgagee
 * mortgager

Verbs for Mortgage
assign—; borrow on—; cancel—; confirm—; contract—; convey—; discharge—; foreclose —; fulfill—; grant—; lift—; melt into—; pay off—; undertake—; —assures; —burdens; —devours; —guarantees; —insures; —saps; —warrants.

Adverbs for Mortgage
hopelessly; rashly; improvidently; optimistically; lucklessly.

Thesaurus
adjustment mortgage, antichresis, blanket mortgage, bond, bottomry, bottomry bond, chattel mortgage, closed mortgage, dead pledge, deed of trust, deposit, dip, first mortgage, go bail, handsel, hock, hypothec, hypothecate, hypothecation, impignorate, installment mortgage, leasehold mortgage, lien, living pledge, mortgage deed, mortuum vadium, participating mortgage, pawn, pledge, post, put in hock, put in pawn, put up, second mortgage, security agreement, spout, stake, third mortgage, trust mortgage, vadium mortuum, vadium vivum

Etymology
From mortgage:,  mortgage:, from  mort gage:, after  mortuum vadium:.

Noun

 * Arabic: رهن, رهن عقاري
 * Catalan: hipoteca
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 抵押, 抵押貸款, 抵押贷款, 按揭
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: hypoteekkilaina
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: משכנתא
 * Hungarian: jelzálog


 * Interlingua: hypotheca
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 抵当, 抵当権, 住宅ローン
 * Latin:
 * Norwegian: hypothek
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: hypothek
 * Turkish: ipotek, rehin, tutu

Verb

 * Catalan: hipotecar
 * Dutch: hypothekeren, lijfrente afsluiten, verpanden
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: υποθηκεύω


 * Hebrew: משכן
 * Interlingua: hypothecar
 * Polish: obciążać hipotekę
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish: hipotecar
 * Turkish: ipotek vermek, rehin vermek, tutu vermek