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Definition: Amortize |
AmortizeVerb1. Liquidate gradually. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "amortize" was first used: 14th century. (references) |
Synonym: AmortizeSynonym: amortise (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Amortize |
| English words defined with "amortize": Amortisement. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "amortize": balloon mortgage ♦ debt service constant ♦ flexible payment mortgage. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "amortize": Amortization. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Trade | Costa Rica | The sum of the surcharge duties and other revenue generated by the extraordinary measures are to be used by the Central Bank to amortize the monetary stabilization account. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
amortize | 333 |
amortize loan | 86 |
amortize bin cgi ray.met.fsu.edu | 21 |
amortize schedule | 17 |
mortgage amortize | 15 |
amortize calculator | 14 |
amortize table | 12 |
amortize calcualtor | 8 |
amortize.html bret ray.met.fsu.edu | 6 |
amortize chart | 4 |
amortize car loan | 4 |
amortize loan mortgage | 3 |
amortize loan calculator | 3 |
amortize program | 2 |
amortize loan payment | 2 |
amortize auto loan | 2 |
mortgage payment calculator amortize | 2 |
amortize payment | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "amortize"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | afskryf (deaden, write, write off), amortiseer (deaden). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | amortizoj (absorb, amortise, break, muffle), zbut (allay, amortise, appease, assuage, attenuate, break, calm, chasten, commute, daunt, disarm, ease, extenuate, malaxate, manage, melt, mince, mitigate, moderate, modify, mollify, palatalize, palliate, propitiate, qualify, reclaim, relax, relieve, smooth, soften, soothe, subdue, tame, temper, tenderize, tone down), zbus (allay, amortise, assuage, attenuate, break, calm, calm down, domesticate, ease, macerate, propitiate, relax, soften). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | амортизирам (amortise, sink), погасявам (amortise, clear off, extinguish, pay off, quit, redeem, sink). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 折旧 (Amortise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | amortizovat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | amortisere i løbet af restløbetid (to amortize over its residual life), værdier som kan afskrives (assets to amortise, assets to amortize, assets to write off, sinking securities). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | aflossen (deaden, pay off, redeem, take the place of), afbetalen (deaden, pay off, pay on account, to pay by instalments, to pay off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | amortizi (deaden). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مستهلک کردن (Depreciate), کشتن (Administer, Butcher, Dispatch, Doin, Extinguish, Mortify, Murder, Out, Rat, Smite), وقف کردن (Avow, Bequeath, Dedicate, Devote, Endow), خراب کردن (Botch, Corrupt, Demolish, Destroy, Deteriorate, Devastate, Dilapidate, Disfigure, Impair, Muck, Muddle, Ruin, Ruinate, Unbuild, Undo, Unmake, Vitiate, Wrack, Wreck), بیحس کردن (Paralyze), بدیگری واگذارکردن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | puuduttaa (anesthetize, cancel, declare invalid, pay off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | amortir. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | ôfskriuwe (deaden, write off), ôflosse (deaden, pay off, redeem). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | amortisieren (deaden, to amortize, to pay off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ξεπληρώνω με δόσεισ, πληρώνω με χρεωλυσία. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | amortizál (amortise, sank, sunk, to sink), törleszt kölcsönt (amortise), leír (amortise, depict, describe, note down, portray, put down, to blazon, to delineate, to depict, to describe, to engross, to illustrate, to picture, to portray, to put down, to set down, to stick down, to transcribe, to write down, to write off, write down, write off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ammortizzare (amortise, dampen, deaden, depreciate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | scryssey magh (abolishment, abolition, attrition, blot out, blur, blur as vision, delete, deletion, efface, erase, erasure, obliterate, obliteration, scratch out, scrub, shatter, strike off, wear off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | amortizeay amortizar (amortise, pay in instalments, pay off, redeem, refund). (various references) amortiza (absorb, break, cushion, damp, deaden, extinguish, liquidate, pay off, redeem), aliena (alienate). (various references) отчуждать недвижимость (amortise), погашать долг (amortise, extinguish, liquidate), погашать (amortise). (various references) amortizovati (amortise). (various references) amortizar (amortise, deaden, pay off, redeem). (various references) amortera (sink). (various references) amortize etmek, amortisman ayırmak, sönümlemek, itfa etmek. (various references) сплачувати в розстрочку, амортизувати. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | ad-. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "amortize": amortized, amortizes. (additional references) | |
Words containing "amortize": unamortized. (additional references) | |
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"Amortize" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: almitrine, amertize, ammortise, amorite, amoritize. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "amortize" (pronounced a"mertī'z) |
| 4 | -er t ī' z | advertise. |
| 3 | -t ī' z | alphabetize, democratize, deputize, desensitize, digitize, dramatize, hypnotize, neckties, prioritize, privatize, proselytize, sanitize, securitize, sensitize, stigmatize, traumatize. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: atomizer. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-m-o-r-t-z" | |
-1 letter: atomize. | |
-2 letters: imaret, mazier. | |
-3 letters: aimer, amort, armet, azote, irate, maize, mater, matzo, mazer, merit, metro, mirza, miter, mitre, moira, moire, morae, oater, orate, ramet, ramie, ratio, remit, retia, tamer, terai, timer, zaire, ziram. | |
-4 letters: aero, airt, amie, amir, atom, emir, emit, iota, item, izar, mair, mare, mart, mate, maze, meat, meta, mire, mite. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-m-o-r-t-z" | |
+1 letter: amortized, amortizes, aromatize, atomizers. | |
+2 letters: aromatized, aromatizes, dogmatizer. | |
+3 letters: achromatize, amortizable, democratize, dogmatizers, immortalize, romanticize, temporalize, tetrazolium, unamortized. | |
+4 letters: achromatized, achromatizes, democratized, democratizer, democratizes, dimerization, immortalized, immortalizer, immortalizes, memorization, racemization, romanticized, romanticizes, spermatozoid, temporalized, temporalizes, tetrazoliums. | |
+5 letters: democratizers, democratizing, dimerizations, germanization, immortalizers, isomerization, melodramatize, memorizations, mercerization, metronidazole, modernization, overdramatize, racemizations, spermatozoids, temporalizing, temporization. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6D 6F 72 74 69 7A 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -- --- .-. - .. --.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101101 01101111 01110010 01110100 01101001 01111010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A m o r t i z e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006D 006F 0072 0074 0069 007A 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3579818486759271 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Translations: Ancient 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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