hypothecate

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But previous attempts to "hypothecate" - or earmark - National Insurance contributions for specific public services have been abandoned.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2024

If they had no property real or personal to hypothecate, they could borrow on their personal credit only from usurers, who charged 20% and more interest.

From Time Magazine Archive

For it must be clearly understood that Paul is not asking us to fancy, or imagine, or hypothecate.

From The Theology of Holiness by Clark, Dougan

There is nothing for it but to hypothecate a part of my stock in the X National.

From A Captain in the Ranks A Romance of Affairs by Eggleston, George Cary

The acreage alone was to cost him a thousand; no telling what the drainage would cost, but whatever the figure there would not be profit enough to hypothecate.

From Young Wallingford by Chester, George Randolph