second mortgage
noun [C] (also remortgage, also US home equity loan) FINANCE, PROPERTYDefinition
› a loan that someone gets using their property as security (= an asset that the lender can take if the loan is not paid back), when they have already used this type of loan to buy the property: The bank offers a 20-year, fixed-rate second mortgage option at an amount up to 4% of the appraised value of the home.
(Definition of second mortgage noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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