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mortgagor

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[ mawr-guh-jer ]

noun

  1. a person who mortgages property.


mortgagor

/ ˌmɔːɡɪˈdʒɔː; ˈmɔːɡɪdʒə /

noun

  1. property law a person who borrows money by mortgaging his property to the lender as security
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Word History and Origins

Origin of mortgagor1

First recorded in 1575–85; mortgage + -or 2
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The IFS said the UK's benefits system currently provides "relatively little support for low income mortgagors compared to what's on offer for low income renters".

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However, it is unlikely that delinquencies will rise to levels seen during the Great Recession, when more than 6% of mortgagors became 90 or more days delinquent, they said.

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“It is the young — indebted students and struggling mortgagors, parents supporting families paycheck to paycheck, precarious recent graduates and anxious first-time job seekers — whose lives will be most deeply scarred,” they wrote.

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She’s not getting that bump this spring, which is going to force her to reopen with “massive debt with vendors, rents, mortgagors, insurance, utilities and taxes.”

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So far, he said, banks have not offered relief to their landlord mortgagors.

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