mortgage burner

短语

词形变化

mortgage burners 复数 mortgage burners

释义与例句

n.
  1. 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).

    植物学 商务

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

    Tobacco was considered a mortgage burner in that day.

词源

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

来源：wiktionary