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's all those shares we bought to-day which we ought to be able to hypothecate with somebody.

From The Titan by Dreiser, Theodore

He had no power to hypothecate any part of the public revenue.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron