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- the charging of real (or personal) property by a debtor to a creditor as security for a debt (especially one incurred by the purchase of the property), on the condition that it shall be returned on payment of the debt within a certain period（尤指因购买地产所需的）抵押。
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- a deed effecting such a transaction抵押契据。
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- a loan obtained through the conveyance of property as security抵押贷款, 按揭：
I put down a hundred thousand in cash and took out a mortgage for the rest.
我付了十万元现金, 余额用抵押贷款支付。
with obj.(常作be mortgaged)
1- convey (a property) to a creditor as security on a loan将（房地产）抵押贷款。
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- figurative expose to future risk or constraint for the sake of immediate advantage〈喻〉（为眼前好处）使承受（未来）风险：
some people worry that selling off state assets mortgages the country's future.
有人担心出售国有资产是拿国家前途作抵押。
派生词
mortgageable
adjective词源
late Middle English: from Old French， literally 'dead pledge'， from mort （from Latin mortuus 'dead'） + gage 'pledge'.