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hypothecate

[hahy-poth-i-keyt] / haɪˈpɒθ ɪˌkeɪt /


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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

Just hypothecate ten thousand of those Union Cordage shares and five thousand Western Trolley, and buy Consolidated on a twenty per cent margin.

From The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation by Wilson, Harry Leon

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