transcription, транскрипция: [ mɔ:(r)gɪdʒ ]
( mortgages, mortgaging, mortgaged)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
A mortgage is a loan of money which you get from a bank or building society in order to buy a house.
...an increase in mortgage rates.
N-COUNT : oft N n
2.
If you mortgage your house or land, you use it as a guarantee to a company in order to borrow money from them.
They had to mortgage their home to pay the bills.
VERB : V n