[with obj.]write off the initial cost of (an asset) by instalments over a period or by charging to a number of different cost centres 摊销,摊还 ■reduce or extinguish (a debt) by money regularly put aside 分期偿还(债务) ■(historical)transfer (land) to a corporation in mortmain (史)把(地产)以永久管业形式转让给一社团
派生 amortization noun 语源
late Middle English (in the senses 'deaden' and 'transfer (land) to a corporation in mortmain'): from Old French amortiss-, lengthened stem of amortir, based on Latin ad 'to, at' + mors, mort- 'death'