Definition of "amortized" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of amortize. (verb)

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• "This issue, plus the idea of amortized accounting for long-term investments, is merely to try to put our national finances in a different, and hopefully more intelligent, context than they usually are when the deficit hawks start their periodic circling."
• "The value that funds like Columbia Cash Reserves are required to publish is the so-called amortized cost, which is essentially a value assigned to the security based on its purchase price."
• "But they would have to discount all those years and huge costs of design, testing, development and validation, which must be spread out ( "amortized") over hundreds of thousands, even millions, of units."