As verbs the difference between mortgage and ringbark
is that mortgage is (legal) to borrow against a property, to obtain a loan for another purpose by giving away the right of seizure to the lender over a fixed property such as a house or piece of land; to pledge a property in order to get a loan while ringbark is to remove the bark from a tree in a ring all the way around its trunk, normally killing the tree (because nutrients are carried through the phloem, the layers immediately under the bark, which layers are damaged by the process).
As a noun mortgage
is (legal) a special form of secured loan where the purpose of the loan must be specified to the lender, to purchase assets that must be fixed (not movable) property such as a house or piece of farm land the assets are registered as the legal property of the borrower but the lender can seize them and dispose of them if they are not satisfied with the manner in which the repayment of the loan is conducted by the borrower once the loan is fully repaid, the lender loses this right of seizure and the assets are then deemed to be unencumbered.
mortgage
English
Noun
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en noun)
(legal) A special form of secured loan where the purpose of the loan must be specified to the lender, to purchase assets that must be fixed (not movable) property such as a house or piece of farm land. The assets are registered as the legal property of the borrower but the lender can seize them and dispose of them if they are not satisfied with the manner in which the repayment of the loan is conducted by the borrower. Once the loan is fully repaid, the lender loses this right of seizure and the assets are then deemed to be unencumbered.
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(obsolete) State of being pledged.
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Derived terms
* anaconda mortgage
Verb
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mortgag)
(legal) To borrow against a property, to obtain a loan for another purpose by giving away the right of seizure to the lender over a fixed property such as a house or piece of land; to pledge a property in order to get a loan.
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(figurative) To pledge and make liable; to make subject to obligation; to achieve an immediate result by paying for it in the long term.
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Related terms
* mortgagee
* mortgager
ringbark
English
Alternative forms
* ring-bark
Verb
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en verb)
To remove the bark from a tree in a ring all the way around its trunk, normally killing the tree (because nutrients are carried through the phloem, the layers immediately under the bark, which layers are damaged by the process).
Usage notes
Ring-bark seems about twice as common as ringbark (without hyphen) in books. Girdling is much more common in the US.