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Amortize

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transitive verb. To liquidate (a debt, such as a mortgage) by installment payments or payment into a sinking fund.

transitive verb. To write off an expenditure for (an asset, especially an intangible one, such as a patent) by prorating over a certain period, usually the expected duration of the asset's benefit.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

. To make dead; deaden; destroy.

In law, to alienate in mortmain, that is, to convey to a corporation, sole or aggregate, ecclesiastical or temporal, and their successors. See mortmain.

To extinguish, as a debt, by means of a sinking-fund.

To droop; hang as dead.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

transitive verb. To make as if dead; to destroy.

transitive verb. To alienate in mortmain, that is, to convey to a corporation. See Mortmain.

transitive verb. To clear off or extinguish, as a debt, usually by means of a sinking fund.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

verb. To alienate (property) in mortmain.

verb. To wipe out (a debt, liability etc.) gradually or in installments.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

verb. liquidate gradually

Word Usage

"Her training group was being pressured to "leverage" or, in English, amortize the investment in the videoconference system."

Antonyms

Words with the opposite meaning

accrue

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

liquidate payoff

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

abalienate alien alienate assign barter

variant

mortmain

verb-form

amortized amortizes amortizing