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

She could hypothecate her income; sell her jewels.

From An Oregon Girl A Tale of American Life in the New West by Rice, Alfred Ernest

The trouble heretofore has been—I am quoting remarks of planters and steamboatmen—that the planters, although owning the land, were without cash capital; had to hypothecate both land and crop to carry on the business.

From Life on the Mississippi, Part 7. by Twain, Mark

Then you hypothecate your stock in company number one, and you have your dummy directors lend you more money, and you buy another trust company.

From The Moneychangers by Sinclair, Upton