The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word MORTGAGE
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More clues leading to the result MORTGAGE
- More about origins of that good and generous loan
- Again accepting that ultimately disclosure ban is needed for loan
- Initially the good silver acquired by additional loan
- Time to shut up, beset by extra financial burden
- Aggro met arranging a loan
- Loan money or get swindled over silver
- Tense silence during increased security
- Financial millstone? For northerners the joke is in again
- Loan gives male good time — nothing right in that
- Bankrupt’s ultimate joke, involved in extra money being borrowed
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The straight part
We know that "Loan" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case loan = mortgage.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does MORTGAGE mean?
MORTGAGE noun- A special form of secured loan where the purpose of the loan must be specified to the lender, to purchase assets that must be fixed (not movable) property, such as a house or piece of farm land. The assets are registered as the legal property of the borrower but the lender can seize them and dispose of them if they are not satisfied with the manner in which the repayment of the loan is conducted by the borrower. Once the loan is fully repaid, the lender loses this right of seizure and the assets are then deemed to be unencumbered.
- State of being pledged.
- To borrow against a property, to obtain a loan for another purpose by giving away the right of seizure to the lender over a fixed property such as a house or piece of land; to pledge a property in order to get a loan.
- To pledge and make liable; to make subject to obligation; to achieve an immediate result by paying for it in the long term.