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Definition

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)

We are the proud owners of a new home and a $100,000 mortgage.

mortgage = property loan

The site has a mortgage payment calculator that calculates the loan payment based on the interest rate and length of the loan.

mortgage = real estate loan

Your mama's got no job come fall and there's the mortgage and next year's taxes to think of.
Mildred D. Taylor -- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

mortgage = property loan that must be paid to keep the property

Two-thirds of my income goes in paying the interest of mortgages.
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

mortgages = real estate loans

The Methodists were trying to pay off their church mortgage, and had challenged the Baptists to a game of touch football.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

mortgage = real estate loan

And when we bought the house, we agreed that I should pay only a percentage of the mortgage based on what I earn and what he earns, and that I should own an equivalent percentage of community property; this is written in our prenuptial agreement.
Amy Tan -- The Joy Luck Club

mortgage = home loan

My grandparents took the money they had in the home in the Bronx, decades of savings and mortgage payments, and gave it to my mother so that she could pay for my first year of military school.
Wes Moore -- The Other Wes Moore

mortgage = home loan

He saw himself as a muckraking gadfly and had mortgaged his brownstone five times to keep The Phoenix going.
Jeannette Walls -- The Glass Castle

mortgaged = pledged for a loan

We're waiting for the mortgage to be approved.
Angie Thomas -- The Hate U Give

mortgage = real estate loan

Reverend Lanier, however, lost his job when the Methodists took up the mortgage on his church.
Homer Hickam -- October Sky

mortgage = real estate loan

What with mortgages and arrears, I'm as short o' cash as a roadside pauper.
George Eliot -- Silas Marner

mortgages = real estate loans

But to ask ownership is like you shall own the meeting house itself; the last meeting I were at you spoke so long on deeds and mortgages I thought it were an auction.
Arthur Miller -- The Crucible

mortgages = real estate loans

She even induced Winston to mortgage yet another of his evenings by enrolling himself for the part-time munition work which was done voluntarily by zealous Party members.
George Orwell -- 1984

mortgage = pledge

But that includes the last payment on the mortgage.
Arthur Miller -- Death of a Salesman

mortgage = real estate loan

A mortgage is a big commitment.
Gish Jen -- Typical American

mortgage = a real estate loan; or pledging something for a loan

Two hundred and forty roubles ... to pay the interest on the mortgage.
Anton Chekhov -- The Cherry Orchard

mortgage = a real estate loan; or pledging something for a loan

All the time I was a boy we had a mortgage hanging over us.
Willa Cather -- O Pioneers!

mortgage = a real estate loan; or pledging something for a loan

But son, that mortgage give us four more years.
Mildred D. Taylor -- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

mortgage = a loan agreement that promises to turn property over to the lender if not paid as agreed

When the chores were almost finished, Mr. Morrison arrived from Strawberry, where he had gone to make the August mortgage payment.
Mildred D. Taylor -- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

mortgage = a loan agreement that promises to turn property over to the lender if not paid as agreed

With Hammer's half of the mortgage money, we've got enough to meet the June payment...
Mildred D. Taylor -- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

mortgage = a loan agreement that promises to turn property over to the lender if not paid as agreed

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