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say it: MAWR-guhj
mortgage is a noun and verb meaning "a conditional conveyance of property as security for the repayment of a loan". It is pronounced /ˈmɔɹɡədʒ/ — MAWR-guhj. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a conditional conveyance of property as security for the repayment of a loan
put up as security or collateral
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for mortgage come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.