Dictionary Entry
mortgage
mortgage is a 8-letter English word with 6 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A conveyance of property, upon condition, as security for the payment of a debt or the preformance of a duty, and to become void upon payment or performance according to the stipulated terms; also, the written instrument by which the conveyance is made. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 15 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A conveyance of property, upon condition, as security for the payment of a debt or the preformance of a duty, and to become void upon payment or performance according to the stipulated terms; also, the written instrument by which the conveyance is made.
- 2noun
State of being pledged; as, lands given in mortgage.
- 3transitive verb
To grant or convey, as property, for the security of a debt, or other engagement, upon a condition that if the debt or engagement shall be discharged according to the contract, the conveyance shall be void, otherwise to become absolute, subject, however, to the right of redemption.
- 4transitive verb
Hence: To pledge, either literally or figuratively; to make subject to a claim or obligation.
- 5noun
a conditional conveyance of property as security for the repayment of a loan
- 6verb
put up as security or collateral
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