mortgage
/ˈmɔːɡɪdʒ/noun
उच्चारण मॉर्गिज
गिरवी, बंधक, गृह-ऋण
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[C]
a legal agreement by which a bank lends you money to buy a house, and you pay the money back over a particular number of years; the sum of money that you borrow
गिरवी, बंधक, गृह-ऋण
- They took out a mortgage to buy the flat.
- They repay the mortgage on their house every month.
- The couple took out a twenty-year mortgage to buy their first flat.
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- Interest rates on mortgages have risen again.
- After years of hard work, he finally paid off the mortgage.
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[T] ~ sth
to give a bank the legal right to own your house or land if you do not pay the money back that you have borrowed from the bank to buy it
गिरवी रखना
- He mortgaged his land to start a business.
- The farmer mortgaged his house to pay for his son's studies.
- She mortgaged her jewellery to pay for the wedding.
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- Many families mortgage their property to get a loan for their business.
- The old couple had to mortgage their land when the crop failed.
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mort·gage
Spelling and pronunciation, asked very often: mort-gage, with a silent t, /ˈmɔːɡɪdʒ/ (not 'morgage').
Spelling और pronunciation में यह बहुत पूछा जाता है: mort-gage, silent t के साथ, /ˈmɔːɡɪdʒ/ ('morgage' गलत है)।
?Which word?
Keep the loan words together: mortgage (a loan for property), pawn (leave an object with a pawnbroker as security), collateral (property given as security for a loan), lien (a legal right over property until a debt is paid).
ऋण के शब्द साथ याद रखिए: mortgage (संपत्ति के लिए ऋण), pawn (pawnbroker के पास वस्तु गिरवी रखना), collateral (ऋण की सुरक्षा के रूप में दी गई संपत्ति), lien (कर्ज़ चुकने तक संपत्ति पर कानूनी अधिकार)।
“Collocations, idioms and sayings
Pay off a mortgage, mortgage rate.
Collocations: pay off a mortgage (गिरवी रखे घर का पूरा क़र्ज़ चुकाना), mortgage rate (गृह-ऋण की ब्याज दर)। 'mortgage' में 't' का उच्चारण नहीं होता।
⌂Word origin and word building
From the old French for 'dead pledge'.
पुरानी French 'मृत गिरवी' से।