mortgager

1. 1.

   the person who gives a mortgage in return for money to be repaid

   “we became mortgagors when the bank accepted our mortgage and loaned us the money to buy our new home”

   Synonymsmortgagor

   Broaderdebtor

Other forms of mortgager

plural

mortgagers·

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.

Questions about mortgager

What does mortgager mean?

mortgager means "the person who gives a mortgage in return for money to be repaid".

How many syllables are in mortgager?

mortgager has 3 syllables: mort-ga-ger. The stress falls on "mort".

What is another word for mortgager?

Close synonyms include mortgagor. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mortgager a common word?

mortgager is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.