Usually means: Spreads cost over time gradually.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. amortizes: Merriam-Webster
  2. amortizes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. amortizes: Vocabulary.com
  4. amortizes: Wordnik
  5. amortizes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. amortizes: Wiktionary
  7. amortizes: Dictionary.com
  8. amortizes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. amortizes: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. amortizes: Legal dictionary
  3. amortizes: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. amortizes: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (amortize)

verb:  (real estate, property law, transitive) To alienate (property) in mortmain.
verb:  (business, finance, transitive) To wipe out (a debt, liability etc.) gradually or in installments.
verb:  (transitive, computer science) To even out the costs of running an algorithm over many iterations, so that high-cost iterations are much less frequent than low-cost iterations, which lowers the average running time.
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