Vocabulary

Mortgage

English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.

English meaning
To Obligate by prior agreement
Urdu meaning
گروی رکھنا، رہن
Example sentences (from Dawn)

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  1. Where eight hours on the factory floor or behind the wheels of a cab is enough to pay the mortgage, enough to keep the lights on, enough to send your kids to school`.
  2. This one had plenty of specifics, which included three separate tax breaks on property transactions and an idea to introduce a `10 year fixed rate mortgage product tied to the PIB bond yield` tomake housing more affordable.
  3. This one had plenty of specifics, which included three separate tax breaks on property transactions and an idea to introduce a `10 year fixed rate mortgage product tied to the PIB bond yield` tomake housing more affordable.
Synonyms
commit, engage, troth

Antonyms
renege
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