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Amortize

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To liquidate (a debt, such as a mortgage) by installment payments or payment into a sinking fund.

v. To write off an expenditure for (office equipment, for example) by prorating over a certain period.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To alienate (property) in mortmain.

v. To wipe out (a debt, liability etc.) gradually or in installments.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To make as if dead; to destroy.

v. To alienate in mortmain, that is, to convey to a corporation. See Mortmain.

v. To clear off or extinguish, as a debt, usually by means of a sinking fund.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

. To make dead; deaden; destroy.

In law, to alienate in mortmain, that is, to convey to a corporation, sole or aggregate, ecclesiastical or temporal, and their successors. See mortmain.

To extinguish, as a debt, by means of a sinking-fund.

To droop; hang as dead.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. liquidate gradually

Word Usage

"Her training group was being pressured to "leverage" or, in English, amortize the investment in the videoconference system."

Antonym

accrue

Verb Form

amortized amortizes amortizing

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

liquidate payoff

Variant

mortmain

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

destroy