Usually means: Spread cost over time period.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. amortize: Merriam-Webster
  2. amortize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. amortize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. amortize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. amortize: Vocabulary.com
  6. amortize: Wordnik
  7. amortize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. amortize: Wiktionary
  9. amortize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. amortize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. amortize: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. amortize: Dictionary.com
  13. amortize: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Amortize: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Amortize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. amortize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. amortize: Rhymezone
  18. Amortize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. amortize: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. amortize: FreeDictionary.org
  21. amortize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. amortize: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. amortize: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  24. amortize: Merriam-Webster

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. amortize: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. amortize: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  5. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. amortize: Legal dictionary
  8. amortize: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. amortize: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. amortize: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Amortize: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (real estate, property law, transitive) To alienate (property) in mortmain.
verb:  (business, finance, transitive) To wipe out (a debt, liability etc.) gradually or in installments.
verb:  (transitive, computer science) To even out the costs of running an algorithm over many iterations, so that high-cost iterations are much less frequent than low-cost iterations, which lowers the average running time.

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