MEANING
Spread a cost or reduce a debt through amounts assigned to successive periods.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- amortize a loan
- amortize development costs
On the page
The firm planned to amortize development costs over five years.
Related words
Word forms
- Base
- amortize
- Past tense
- amortized
- Past participle
- amortized
- Present participle
- amortizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- amortize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are amortizing
- Present perfect
- have/has amortized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been amortizing
- Past
- amortized
- Past continuous
- was/were amortizing
- Past perfect
- had amortized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been amortizing
- Future
- will amortize
- Future continuous
- will be amortizing
- Future perfect
- will have amortized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been amortizing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: amortize; amortizes; amortized; amortized; amortizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, evaluation, business. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: amortizes.
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