mortgaging

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noun

The act by which something is mortgaged.

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Meanings

nounmortgaging (plural mortgagings)

plural mortgagings

  1. The act by which something is mortgaged.

    Her road had again seemed to stretch out endless, she imagined that there might be hundreds and hundreds of such things that Edward was concealing from her – that they might necessitate more mortgagings, more pawnings of bracelets, more and always more horrors.

    1915, Ford Madox Hueffer [i.e., Ford Madox Ford], chapter V, in The Good Soldier […], Harmondsworth, Middlesex [London]: Penguin Books, published 1972 (1982 printing), →ISBN, part I, page 63
verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of mortgage

Origin

From mortgage + -ing.

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APA

mortgaging. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mortgaging

MLA

“mortgaging.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mortgaging. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mortgaging,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mortgaging.

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