OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 1938

mortgage

/ˈmɔː.ɡɪd͡ʒ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
hipoteca
A legal agreement in which a borrower pledges real property as collateral for a loan used to purchase or refinance that property.
The appriser, therefore, (as the holder of a mortgage was then called,) entered upon possession, and in the language of Hotspur, "came me cranking in," and cut the family out of an…
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 1939

mortgage

/ˈmɔː.ɡɪd͡ʒ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
hipotecar
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; to pledge a property in order to get a loan.
We mortgaged our house in order to start a company.
to mortgage a property, an estate, or a shop