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adj. - Burdened with legal or financial obligations.

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Usage examples (36)
  • His house, his business, indeed, his whole life was heavily mortgaged
  • To her, novel ideas meant the overthrow of succession of crops, ruin under the name of improvements and methods; in short, mortgaged lands as the inevitable result of...
  • Except this time, U.S. banks aren't selling packages of so-called mortgaged-backed securities to investors; the banks are selling "credit cardholder debt" to investors.
  • "Why, I thought this eighty was already mortgaged!"
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