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- Me, I've got seventeen years left on a twenty-year mortgage and twin girls who have their hearts set on Bridgton Academy.†
*mortgage = a real estate loan; or pledging something for a loan
- You've got your own mortgage, your own kid, plus that old jag sportster that's going to half-buck you to death.'†
- Just about enough to cover three quarters of their outstanding debts, if you excluded the mortgage on the farm.†
- She could not bring herself to think about the mortgage except payment by payment.†
- Mr. Shouper at the Casco Bank in Bridgton had explained to her that if the money was put in a special trust account, it plus the lottery money would make nearly all the outstanding mortgage payments over the next five years.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(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) - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)