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- The land around it was thick with hardwoods, valuable timber Seth had mortgaged repeatedly and parlayed into wealth.†
p. 3.3 *mortgaged = pledged as collateral (something that has to be given to the lender if the loan isn't paid as agreed)
- Max died in the fire that destroyed their beautiful and beloved and heavily mortgaged Victorian home on Adams Street, three years ago.†
p. 10.4
- He passed the offices of The Ford County Times, the Tea Shoppe, which was only now coming to life, a haberdashery where he bought his suits on sale, a black-owned café called Claude's where he ate every Friday with the other white liberals in town, an antiques store owned by a crook Jake had sued twice, a bank still holding the second mortgage on his home and tied up in the same lawsuit, and a county office building where the new district attorney worked when he was in town.†
p. 21.1mortgage = a real estate loan; or pledging something for a loan
- He had good reason to be curious since most of his own assets were so heavily mortgaged.†
p. 47.5mortgaged = pledged as collateral (something that has to be given to the lender if the loan isn't paid as agreed)
- He mortgaged his own house and land a dozen times.†
p. 98.2
- They'll be more sympathetic than a bunch of rednecks who can barely pay their mortgages.†
p. 144.1mortgages = real estate loans; or pledges something for a loan
- The first box was labeled "Real Estate," and it was filled with deeds, canceled mortgages, appraisals, tax bills, tax assessments, paid invoices from contractors, copies of checks written by Seth, and closing statements from lawyers.†
p. 181.5
- There were no mortgages.†
p. 276.9
- How much is the mortgage?†
p. 413.8mortgage = a real estate loan; or pledging something for a loan
- Mortgages, plural.†
p. 413.9mortgages = real estate loans; or pledges something for a loan
- The first mortgage is eighty thousand, the second is just under fifteen.†
p. 413.9mortgage = a real estate loan; or pledging something for a loan
- So Land is offering you just enough to pay off both mortgages.†
p. 413.9mortgages = real estate loans; or pledges something for a loan
- He could close a rather thick and depressing fish file, pay off the two mortgages, get the banks off his back, and pocket some cash.†
p. 429.1
- On the other hand, the check meant cash in the bank; not much by any means, but after paying off the two mortgages they would net close to $40,000.†
p. 465.5
- You guys go to the bank and line up a mortgage, and we'll close in ninety days.†
p. 469.1mortgage = a real estate loan; or pledging something for a loan
- What if we can't qualify for a mortgage?†
p. 469.2
- Expansively, he recounted Seth's amazing ten-year run from a man broken by his second nasty divorce to a high-flying risk taker who parlayed his own mortgaged property into a fortune.†
p. 501.4mortgaged = pledged as collateral (something that has to be given to the lender if the loan isn't paid as agreed)
- He took chances, borrowed heavily at times, ignored the advice of his trusted lieutenants, mortgaged his own house and land, made deals that looked bad on paper, borrowed even more, took risks that seemed outrageous, and in the end, when Seth Hubbard was told he was dying of lung cancer, he sold out.†
p. 510.8
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)