Amortize



GRE 蓝宝

解释

GRE 红宝书

• v.分期偿还
• ［英］ v.分期偿还 ( to put money for gradual payment of a debt)
• ［类］ 反义词: suddenly increase one's indebtedness ( 突然不负债)
• ［记］ a+mort ( 死亡) +ize -> 使死亡 -> 偿还
• ［同］ 同根词: immortal ( 不朽的) ; mortality ( 死亡率)

Webster Collegiate

transitive verb (-tized; -tizing)

• Etymology: Middle English amortisen to kill, alienate in mortmain, from Anglo-French amorteser, alteration of amortir, from Vulgar Latin *admortire to kill, from Latin ad- + mort-, mors death — more at murder
• Date: 1867
• 1. to pay off (as a mortgage) gradually usually by periodic payments of principal and interest or by payments to a sinking fund
• 2. to gradually reduce or write off the cost or value of (as an asset) amortize goodwillamortize machinery
• • amortizable adjective

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