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What does amortization mean?

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Noun
  1. The reduction of loan principal over a series of payments.
  2. The distribution of the cost of an intangible asset, such as an intellectual property right, over the projected useful life of the asset.
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The adjustment, eliminating amortization of inventory step-up, is intended to restore the normal margin of such sales.
However, from 2000 to 2003, the annual disbursements were higher than the amortization.
The advantage of accelerated amortization for tax purposes lies in the deferment of taxes rather than in their reduction.
Mr Edmonds estimates that three or four times earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, or EBITDA, is typical.
A prolonged amortization phase results in a less than optimum neuromuscular efficiency from loss of elastic potential energy.
The simplest method of allowing for the costs of capital services is to calculate the annual amortization of the building over its expected life.

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