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

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

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

In like case I might hypothecate, "To go light, discard all but the really necessary articles."

From The Forest by White, Stewart Edward