as in to commit
to obligate by prior agreement
I've mortgaged all my free time this week to the hospice and won't be able to come to the party
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Recent Examples of mortgage
Clooney had to mortgage his house to help finance the black-and-white film, which received six Oscar nominations, including for best screenplay.
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Thea Traff, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
For starters, the first year for a new coaching staff with a roster coming off a five-win season seems like an odd time to mortgage the future for the present.
—Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 19 Feb. 2025
The team also didn’t completely mortgage its future just in case this doesn’t work out.
—Mike D. Sykes, Ii, For The Win, 3 Feb. 2025
Enacting real property rights in space would create a marketplace for buying, selling, renting and mortgaging property.
—Wayne N White Jr, The Conversation, 31 Jan. 2025
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Thea Traff, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
For starters, the first year for a new coaching staff with a roster coming off a five-win season seems like an odd time to mortgage the future for the present.
—Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 19 Feb. 2025
The team also didn’t completely mortgage its future just in case this doesn’t work out.
—Mike D. Sykes, Ii, For The Win, 3 Feb. 2025
Enacting real property rights in space would create a marketplace for buying, selling, renting and mortgaging property.
—Wayne N White Jr, The Conversation, 31 Jan. 2025
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But by the time Mo returned for its second season, this past January, the massacre Hamas committed on Israeli soil on that day in 2023 had catalyzed a war that has decimated Gaza.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
3 June 2025
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Good leaders and employees commit to clear objectives and the approach to achieving them.—
Megan Leasher,
Forbes.com,
3 June 2025
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Signatories pledged to halve emissions, but efforts are hard to quantify.—
Lea Lane,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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Once the case in Romania concludes, authorities pledged to honor the UK's request to extradite them to face trial in Britain for the separate allegations of rape and human trafficking involving different women between 2012 and 2015.—
Jonathan Limehouse,
USA Today,
29 May 2025
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“Mortgage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mortgage. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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