mortgage

Word : **mortgage**

Context Sentence: Sally Preston was 37 and divorced, with two kids under six and a **mortgage** to pay on her west London home.

Definition: a legal arrangement by which you borrow money from a bank or a small organization in order to buy a house, and pay back the money pver a period of years.

Resource: '//They said I couldn't '-six stories of people who wouldn't give up//, Reader's Digest, November 2006,pp71