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{"id": "amortize", "metadata": {"operation": "retrieve", "provider": "Oxford University Press", "schema": "RetrieveEntry"}, "results": [{"id": "amortize", "language": "en-gb", "lexicalEntries": [{"entries": [{"etymologies": ["late Middle English (in the senses \u2018deaden\u2019 and \u2018transfer (land) to a corporation in mortmain\u2019): from Old French amortiss-, lengthened stem of amortir, based on Latin ad \u2018to, at\u2019 + mors, mort- \u2018death\u2019"], "grammaticalFeatures": [{"id": "transitive", "text": "Transitive", "type": "Subcategorization"}], "pronunciations": [{"audioFile": "https://audio.oxforddictionaries.com/en/mp3/amortize_gb_1.mp3", "dialects": ["British English"], "phoneticNotation": "IPA", "phoneticSpelling": "\u0259\u02c8m\u0254\u02d0t\u028c\u026az"}], "senses": [{"definitions": ["gradually write off the initial cost of (an asset) over a period"], "domainClasses": [{"id": "finance", "text": "Finance"}], "examples": [{"text": "the vessel's owners could not amortize her high capital costs"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0029300.006", "shortDefinitions": ["gradually write off initial cost of asset over period"], "subsenses": [{"definitions": ["reduce or pay off (a debt) with regular payments"], "domainClasses": [{"id": "finance", "text": "Finance"}], "examples": [{"text": "eighty per cent of the proceeds has been used to amortize the public debt"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0029300.017", "shortDefinitions": ["reduce or pay off debt with regular payments"], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "lessen"}, {"language": "en", "text": "make less"}, {"language": "en", "text": "make smaller"}, {"language": "en", "text": "lower"}, {"language": "en", "text": "bring down"}, {"language": "en", "text": "decrease"}, {"language": "en", "text": "turn down"}, {"language": "en", "text": "diminish"}, {"language": "en", "text": "take the edge off"}, {"language": "en", "text": "minimize"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "reduce", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0012243.001"}]}, {"definitions": ["transfer (land) to a corporation in mortmain"], "domainClasses": [{"id": "law", "text": "Law"}], "examples": [{"text": "lands amortized without licence"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0029300.018", "registers": [{"id": "historical", "text": "Historical"}], "shortDefinitions": ["transfer land to corporation in mortmain"]}]}], "variantForms": [{"regions": [{"id": "british", "text": "British"}], "text": "amortise"}]}], "language": "en-gb", "lexicalCategory": {"id": "verb", "text": "Verb"}, "text": "amortize"}], "type": "headword", "word": "amortize"}], "word": "amortize"}
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