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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of amortize.

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Examples

  • This issue, plus the idea of amortized accounting for long-term investments, is merely to try to put our national finances in a different, and hopefully more intelligent, context than they usually are when the deficit hawks start their periodic circling.

    Gary Hart: Puzzling Questions 2010

  • The value that funds like Columbia Cash Reserves are required to publish is the so-called amortized cost, which is essentially a value assigned to the security based on its purchase price.

    How Much Is a Fund Really Worth? 2007

  • But they would have to discount all those years and huge costs of design, testing, development and validation, which must be spread out ( "amortized") over hundreds of thousands, even millions, of units.

    Autoblog Green Gary Witzenburg 2010

  • But they would have to discount all those years and huge costs of design, testing, development and validation, which must be spread out ( "amortized") over hundreds of thousands, even millions, of units.

    Autoblog Green Gary Witzenburg 2010

  • The new ones weren't based on the typical non-amortized loan of seven to ten years, but rather on the far more affordable amortized mortgage of between 25 and 30 years.

    David Woolner: FDR Alleviated Americans' Anger and Suffering Through Action David Woolner 2012

  • Once the debt has been fully amortized collections flow straight to the bottom line.

    Twenty Small-Company Stocks You Should Own Now Brett Nelson 2010

  • One might think that having a baseline regulated industry (cable TV or telephone service) over which the wire base has been amortized and out of which the cost of upkeep are paid, that a government-regulated monopoly might be put in the position of offering wholesale access to competitors on a level playing field.

    National Broadband Plan Is Cash for Clunking Carriers « PubliCola 2010

  • Once the debt has been fully amortized collections flow straight to the bottom line.

    Twenty Small-Company Stocks You Should Own Now Brett Nelson 2010

  • The company's 2010 pretax earnings of $3.7 billion were weighed down by $507 million of past losses that were amortized into its results.

    Rewriting Pension History Michael Rapoport 2011

  • "We would test the market to determine whether somebody's willing to guarantee us new revenue and then share that new revenue with us even after they've amortized the cost of the technology," he said.

    City on the Prowl for Cash Andrew Grossman 2011

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