Meaning

1 senses

  1. A cash crop or choice of livestock regarded as the best bet for a smallholder farmer in some particular time and place (under current market conditions).

    Hogs were a mortgage burner at the time; a new hoghouse could pay its way.

    Tobacco was considered a mortgage burner in that day.

Origin

From the notion of burning the mortgage note (promissory note) after paying off the mortga

From the notion of burning the mortgage note (promissory note) after paying off the mortgage.

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Forms

plural: mortgage burners
Singularmortgage burner
Pluralmortgage burners

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
mortgage lifter

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
mortarB2mortgageB2mortifyB2mortuarymosaic

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