Question

1875, Horatio Alger, Herbert Carter's Legacy, ch. 2:We could pay up the mortgage on the house, and have something left over.

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(intransitivehttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#intransitive and transitivehttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#transitive) To pay in totalhttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/in_total a sum which is owedhttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/owe, especially when the sum has been owed for a period of time.

Sentence	1875, Horatio Alger, Herbert Carter's Legacy, ch. 2: We could pay up the mortgage on the house, and have something left over.
Definition	( intransitive https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#intransitive and transitive https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#transitive ) To pay in total https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/in_total a sum which is owed https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/owe , especially when the sum has been owed for a period of time.

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