mortgaging
- present participle of mortgage.
Example Sentences
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He’s a strong candidate for a team that wants a front-end starter without mortgaging the future.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2025
Mid-cap players are mortgaging chunks of their businesses to get in on the action, too.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2025
The agreement reverses concessions the union agreed to in a series of contracts since 2007, when GM and the former Chrysler were skidding toward bankruptcy, and Ford was mortgaging assets to stay afloat.
From Reuters ● Oct. 26, 2023
A major part of the conversion effort is figuring out how to finance the sale in the first place — so workers aren’t mortgaging their houses to buy their own company.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 25, 2023
Almost immediately, the financial slide began, but was artificially buoyed by extravagant bank loans that Chacko raised by mortgaging the family’s rice fields around the Ayemenem House.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
