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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A mortgage taken out on property that already has one mortgage, with priority in settlement of claims given to the earlier mortgage.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a mortgage that is subordinate to a first mortgage
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