All 7 Uses of
mortgage
in
Main Street
- He owns a lot of mortgages, and he gambles in farm-lands.†
Chpt 3 *
- Luke Dawson, lender of money on mortgages, owner of Northern cut-over land, was a hesitant man in unpressed soft gray clothes, with bulging eyes in a milky face.†
Chpt 4
- He says he's sure he hates to foreclose mortgages, but it's the only way to make them respect the law."†
Chpt 11
- Against the protest of Kennicott and Vida she mortgaged the association by sending to Minneapolis for a baby spotlight, a strip light, a dimming device, and blue and amber bulbs; and with the gloating rapture of a born painter first turned loose among colors, she spent absorbed evenings in grouping, dimming-painting with lights.†
Chpt 18
- Stowbody and Dawson foreclose every mortgage they can, and put in tenant farmers.†
Chpt 18
- But whoever bought or sold or mortgaged, the townsmen invited themselves to the feast—millers, real-estate men, lawyers, merchants, and Dr. Will Kennicott.†
Chpt 35
- You don't oppose this organizer because you think he's seditious but because you're afraid that the farmers he is organizing will deprive you townsmen of the money you make out of mortgages and wheat and shops.†
Chpt 36
Definition:
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(mortgage) a real estate loan; or to offer real estate as collateral for a loan
(collateral is something that has to be given to the lender if the loan isn't paid as agreed)