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US
/ˈmɔɹɡɪdʒd/
]
[ UK /mˈɔːɡɪdʒd/ ]
[ UK /mˈɔːɡɪdʒd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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burdened with legal or financial obligations
his house, his business, indeed, his whole life was heavily mortgaged
How To Use mortgaged In A Sentence
- In 1988 I remortgaged and was given a non-status mortgage provided I signed up for an endowment.
- A good-tempered, smart stallion mule was a prize - and about the only unmortgaged asset Clyde had left. Time Enough For Love
- The lender is faced with the prospect of foreclosing the mortgaged real estate and foreclosing the hard assets and accounts receivable collateral through a remedy known as replevin.
- Page 17 fer it looked like Martin an 'the Colonel was kinder in cahoot, an' my man diskivered that the lan 'had been sold long before it was mortgaged to me for taxes. Northern Georgia sketches,
- It mortgaged off some of its precious metals production from a couple of big copper mines. Times, Sunday Times
- His estate, which has been long mortgaged, is taken from him; and poverty and disgrace await him! The Coquette, or, The History of Eliza Wharton: A Novel Founded on Fact
- Calamity struck when Elbert's death revealed that he had remortgaged his house once too often.
- It had escaped being mortgaged along with everything else, because the lending officer from the bank had claimed it was essentially worthless. Fatal Error
- Price Waterhouse have traced the losses to lenders' inflated assessments of mortgaged property.
- But for the most part, they have extensive properties which are unmortgaged. CNN Transcript Dec 8, 2002