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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)
(collateral is something that has to be given to the lender if the loan isn't paid as agreed)
- Whether it's mortgage or purchase they're going for, I can't tell yet."Book 4 — Three Love Problems (83% in)
- "So, sir, you've been paying ten per cent for money which you've promised to pay off by mortgaging my land when I'm dead and gone, eh?Book 1 — Miss Brooke (90% in)
There are no more uses of "mortgage" in Middlemarch.
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