amortize

English

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Alternative forms

• amortise

Etymology

From (the stem of) Middle French amortir (“to bring to death”), probably from Late Latin *admortīre, from Latin ad + mortem.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /əˈmɔːtɪz/

• Audio (US)

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Verb

amortize (third-person singular simple present amortizes, present participle amortizing, simple past and past participle amortized)

1. (transitive) To alienate (property) in mortmain.
2. (transitive) To wipe out (a debt, liability etc.) gradually or in installments.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 318:

     extraordinary borrowing had been so extensive, Joly de Fleury reckoned, that even if it were amortized over the following decade, the state would still be running an annual deficit of over 50 million livres.

Antonyms

• accrue

Translations

decrease (debt) in installments

• Armenian: հաշվարկել մաշվածությունը (hy) (hašvarkel mašvacutʿyunə)
• Bulgarian: погасявам (bg) (pogasjavam)
• Catalan: amortitzar
• Esperanto: amortizi (eo)
• German: amortisieren (de)

• Norwegian: amortisere (no)
• Romanian: amortiza (ro)
• Spanish: amortizar (es)
• Swedish: amortera (sv)

Anagrams

• atomizer

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Portuguese

Verb

amortize

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of amortizar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of amortizar
3. first-person singular imperative of amortizar
4. third-person singular imperative of amortizar