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How to pronounce amortize in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms amortise
Type of liquidate, pay off
Derivation amortization

Examples of amortize

amortize
Your best option is to amortize your current car's value through extended use.
From the washingtonpost.com
Sure, they had to wait a decade for the billboard owners to amortize their investment.
From the thenewstribune.com
If the interest rate is the same on both, they will amortize in exactly the same way.
From the dailyherald.com
Harn urges county supervisors each year to amortize the cost of the promised benefits.
From the sacbee.com
Gap loans amortize over five years, and they're often secured by inventory and equipment.
From the stltoday.com
They amortize over 20 years, although it must be renegotiated in five.
From the stltoday.com
Retailers who open long-term locations amortize their setup costs over a five-year period.
From the businessweek.com
American corporations can deduct, depreciate, amortize, or capitalize nearly everything.
From the economist.com
As part of the change, companies no longer have to amortize goodwill.
From the businessweek.com
More examples
  • Liquidate gradually
  • (amortization) the reduction of the value of an asset by prorating its cost over a period of years
  • (amortization) payment of an obligation in a series of installments or transfers
  • (Amortized) In computer science, especially analysis of algorithms, amortized analysis finds the average running time per operation over a worst-case sequence of operations. ...
  • (Amortization (business)) In business, amortization is the distribution of a single lump-sum cash flow into many smaller cash flow installments, as determined by an amortization schedule. Unlike other repayment models, each repayment installment consists of both and interest. ...
  • (Amortization (disambiguation)) Amortization is the process of decreasing, or accounting for, an amount over a period. ...
  • (Amortization (tax law)) In tax law, amortization refers to the cost recovery system for intangible property. ...
  • (Amortizing) In banking and finance, an amortizing loan is a loan where the principal of the loan is paid down over the life of the loan, according to some amortization schedule, typically through equal payments.
  • To decrease an amount gradually or in installments, especially in order to write off an expenditure or liquidate a debt