{"id":358559,"date":"2013-01-28T16:34:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.findlaw-admin.com\/ability-law\/dictionary\/definition\/amortize.html"},"modified":"2013-01-28T16:34:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:34:14","slug":"amortize","status":"publish","type":"dictionary","link":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/amortize.html","title":{"rendered":"Amortize"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"fl-index-heading\">\n    <p>term:<\/p>\n    <h1 class=\"fl-h1 fl-mb20\"><\/h1>\n\n    <dl class=\"fl-index-heading-description-list\">\n            <dt class=\"fl-mb10\"><p class=\"fl-text-bold\">vt<\/p><\/dt>\n        <dd><p><b>-tized<\/b><br \/>  <b>-tiz&#183;ing<\/b><br \/>  <b>:<\/b> to reduce (an amount) gradually: as <br \/>  <b>a<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> to pay off (as a loan) gradually usually by periodic payments of principal and interest or payments to a sinking fund <br \/>  <b>b<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> to gradually reduce the cost of (as an asset) esp. for tax purposes by making periodic charges to income over a time span &#91; the machinery over five years&#93; see also <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/depreciation.html\">depreciation<\/a> compare <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/capitalize.html\">capitalize<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/deduct.html\">deduct<\/a> <br \/>  <b><i>  amor&#183;ti&#183;za&#183;ble   <i>adj<\/i><br \/>  <\/b><\/i><br \/>  <b><i>  amor&#183;ti&#183;za&#183;tion   &#91;a-m&#601;r-t&#601;-z&#257;-sh&#601;n, &#601;-m&#559;r-&#93;<br \/>  <i>n<\/i><br \/>  <\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n    <div class=\"fl-index-heading-source\">Source: Merriam-Webster&#8217;s Dictionary of Law \u00a91996. Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. Published under license with Merriam-Webster, Incorporated.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is &#8216;Amortize&#8217;? Learn more about legal terms and the law at FindLaw.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":358119,"menu_order":0,"template":"app\/Http\/Controllers\/Templates\/DictionaryArticleController.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","_autodraft_ids":[],"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"_sb_is_suggestion_mode":false,"_sb_show_suggestion_boards":false,"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"_sb_suggestion_history":"","_sb_update_block_changes":"","_is_real_time_mode":false,"_realtime_collaborators":"","cf_checklist_status":[]},"dictionary_tags":[],"class_list":["post-358559","dictionary","type-dictionary","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary\/358559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/dictionary"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary\/358119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"dictionary_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary_tags?post=358559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}