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consolidated
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adjective
(= amalgamate, amalgamated)
joined together into a whole
United Industries
the amalgamated colleges constituted a university
a consolidated school
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adjective
forming a solid mass
mortgage
Noun
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A mortgage is a loan for the purpose of paying for a house, apartment, building, etc.
For five-year adjustable-rate mortgages, interest rates rose to 5.58 percent.
They can't refinance because the mortgage is higher than the real value of their home.
Unlike traditional 30-year fixed mortgages, these loans are often adjustable.
Credit card, auto loan, and mortgage lenders, along with bankers, are being much more careful about their borrowers.
By November she had missed two of the monthly mortgage payments on the three-bedroom home.
mortgage
Verb
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If you mortgage your home, you borrow money and promise to give up your home if you can't pay back the money.
Henderson's parents mortgaged their house in Cuthbert to buy a piano for the front parlor.
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If you mortgage your future, you enjoy something now even though it will cause problems in the future.
We're mortgaging our children's future instead of investing in it.
bond
Noun
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A bond is a connection between two people because of love or friendship.
War can often build strong bonds between people who suffered or fought together.
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A bond is a connection between two or more things, for example using glue.
The heat created a bond between the plastic and the metal.
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A bond is a financial document promising to pay a certain amount of money. These are often bought and sold.
The new benchmark ten-year government bond yielded 6.3%.
Most large international banks have issued floating rate bonds as a source of medium-term funding.
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Things that tie or limit you.
It took her many years to break free of the bonds of guilt.
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A bond is the force that holds atoms together.
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A contract.
bond
Verb
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If you bond two things, you connect them, for example using glue.
The melting wax bonded to the table.
He bonded the wood to the plastic to make it look more natural.
The individual carbon atoms in a diamond are bonded together extremely strongly.
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If you bond with someone, you form a special relationship.
Breastfeeding helps the baby bond with its mother.