Amortise
finance.
to liquidate or extinguish (a mortgage, debt, or other obligation), especially by periodic payments to the creditor or to a sinking fund.
to write off a cost of (an -sset) gradually.
old english law. to convey to a corporation or church group; alienate in mortmain.
verb (transitive)
(finance) to liquidate (a debt, mortgage, etc) by instalment payments or by periodic transfers to a sinking fund
to write off (a wasting -sset) by annual transfers to a sinking fund
(property law) (formerly) to transfer (lands, etc) in mortmain
v.
chiefly british english spelling of amortize; for suffix, see -ize. related: amortised; amortising.
v.
late 14c., from old french amortiss-, present participle stem of amortir “deaden,” from vulgar latin -admortire “to extinguish,” from ad- “to” (see ad-) + mortus “dead,” from latin mors “death” (see mortal (adj.)). originally a legal term for an act of alienating lands. meaning “extinguish a debt” (in form amortization) is attested from 1824. related: amortized; amortizing.
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