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• SUBORDINATION AGREEMENT
  
  A written agreement between lienholders to change the priority of mortgage, judgment and other liens. Under a subordination agreement, the holder of a superior or prior lien agrees to permit a junior lienholder's interest to move ahead of his or her lien. (See junior mortgage, lien)
  
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