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To amortize a debt is to pay it down by that planned, regular-payment method until it is gone. “We will amortize the mortgage over thirty years.” American English uses amortize; British English often prefers amortise. Same register as amortization: banks, contracts, textbooks. You can amortize a loan faster by paying extra, which cuts the interest; if you amortize it more slowly, the monthly bill is smaller but you pay more interest overall. The verb is what you do; amortization is the name of the process. Rarely, accountants amortize a cost over several years. Do not hear “mort” and jump to immortalize — that is making someone famous forever, almost the opposite feeling.
攤還（動詞：按期把債還掉）
組成From Middle English amortisen, from Old French amortir (stem amortiss-), from Vulgar Latin *admortīre, from Latin mortuus (“dead”). Same “put the debt to death” picture as amortization.
同家族的字
- amortizationthe noun for this regular paying-off
- mortgagesame Latin “death” piece; a mortgage is a “dead pledge”
- mortalfrom the same mors / mortuus family
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
amortizeverb/əˈmɔːtaɪz/
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businesslawpropertyTo alienate (property) in mortmain.
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businessfinanceTo wipe out (a debt, liability etc.) gradually or in installments.
- extraordinary borrowing had been so extensive, Joly de Fleury reckoned, that even if it were amortized over the following decade, the state would still be running an annual deficit of over 50 million livres.
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To make a large cost or other quantity more manageable by dividing it into smaller parts (such as over a long time or across many transactions).
- The magnitude of the frequency adjustment is a compromise between time accuracy, which would favor a large frequency offset so as to amortize the time error over the smallest possible interval
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computercomputingengineeringTo make a large cost or other quantity more manageable by dividing it into smaller parts (such as over a long time or across many transactions).
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。