Mortgage
a mortgage (noun) - an agreement to hand over property to someone who lends you money if you do not pay the money back, a pledge of property to a creditor as security for the payment of a debt.
Example sentences:
* Banks offer their employees cheap mortgages.
* A fixed rate mortgage will cost you a little bit more.
* Sue and I have a big mortgage we got to pay off. We can't afford added monthly expenses.
* We'll have to take out a second mortgage to pay for this holiday.
* Their credit rating is so bad that they are having trouble getting a mortgage to buy a house.
* He didn't earn enough to support his family and pay the mortgage for the house.
* There are penalties that you have to pay the bank if you want to redeem your mortgage early.
* Their home was repossessed when they went into arrears with their mortgage.
* The young couple was struggling to keep up with their mortgage payments.
* I couldn't get a mortgage on the property.
* when they got divorced, she took over the mortgage and got the house
* You've still got the interest and the arrears of the mortgage to pay.
