Amortize vs Loan - What's the difference?
amortize | loan |
To alienate (property) in mortmain.
To wipe out (a debt, liability etc.) gradually or in installments.
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(computer science) To even out the costs of running an algorithm over many iterations, so that high-cost iterations are much less frequent than low-cost iterations, which lowers the average running time per iteration.
(banking, finance) A sum of money or other valuables or consideration that an individual, group or other legal entity borrows from another individual, group or legal entity (the latter often being a financial institution) with the condition that it be returned or repaid at a later date (sometimes with interest).
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The permission to borrow any item.
To lend (something) to (someone).
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As verbs the difference between amortize and loan
is that amortize is to alienate (property) in mortmain while loan is to lend (something) to (someone).As a noun loan is
(banking|finance) a sum of money or other valuables or consideration that an individual, group or other legal entity borrows from another individual, group or legal entity (the latter often being a financial institution) with the condition that it be returned or repaid at a later date (sometimes with interest) or loan can be (scotland) a lonnen.amortize
English
(wikipedia amortize) (Amortized analysis)Alternative forms
* amortiseVerb
(amortiz)- extraordinary borrowing had been so extensive, Joly de Fleury reckoned, that even if it were amortized over the following decade, the state would still be running an annual deficit of over 50 million livres.
Antonyms
* accrueAnagrams
* atomizer ----loan
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) lone, lane, from (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans . Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.}}
Hypernyms
* (something that a legal entity borrows) bailmentHyponyms
* (something that a legal entity borrows) mutuumDerived terms
* bridge loan * caveat loan * loan shark * low-doc loan * swing loanVerb
(en verb)- When you loan somebody something, they have the responsibility to safeguard it.