amortization

English

Alternative forms

• (UK) amortisation

Noun

amortization (countable and uncountable; plural amortizations)

1. The reduction of loan principal over a series of payments.
2. The distribution of the cost of an intangible asset, such as an intellectual property right, over the projected useful life of the asset.

Translations

process of distributing asset cost

• Bulgarian: амортизация (bg) (amortizacija)
• Finnish: amortisointi (fi), poisto (fi)
• German: Abschreibung (de) f
• Korean: 상각 (ko) (sanggak)

• Serbo-Croatian: amortizacija (sh) f
• Spanish: amortización (es) f
• Swedish: avskrivning (sv) c

See also

• depreciation (of tangible assets)
• depletion (of natural resources)
• Amortization of loans on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Amortization_(business)#Amortization of loans
• Amortization of intangible assets on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Amortization_(business)#Amortization of intangible assets
• Intangible assets on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Intangible assets
• Fixed assets on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Fixed assets