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
And then he pledged himself to hypothecate his entire fortune to the rescue of his worthless nephew.
From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking
For it must be clearly understood that Paul is not asking us to fancy, or imagine, or hypothecate.
From The Theology of Holiness by Dougan Clark
It has always seemed to me pertinent to enquire, when Golcondas and Eldorados are offered for a song, why the vendor should be so anxious to hypothecate his priceless privileges.
From Captain Macedoine's Daughter by William McFee
He also called for a specific chunk of taxes raised to be "hypothecated" - earmarked - for the NHS, which he said was "in a state of profound crisis".
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2017
Others tout a hypothecated tax, perhaps giving national-insurance contributions to the NHS.
From Economist ● Nov. 19, 2015
According to Mr. Dewey, in 1932, 1937 and 1938 Dick Whitney hypothecated its securities for loans of $100,000, $100,000 and $400,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cashier Rosenthal revealed that Richard Whitney had established "Richard Whitney's stock control account" in January, had transferred big batches of customers' securities to it, then apparently hypothecated them for personal loans.
From Time Magazine Archive
I am surprised that you should intentionally embarrass me, but I suppose you refer to the United States and railroad bonds that were hypothecated.
From A Speckled Bird by Augusta J. Evans Wilson
The U. S. Department of Labor was considering the possibility of hypothecating its German-Austrian immigration quota for the next three years to admit up to 81,000 refugees into the country.
From Time Magazine Archive
He could see where, all told, he might raise seventy-five thousand dollars by hypothecating double the amount in shares; but this was ridiculously insufficient.
From The Financier, a novel by Theodore Dreiser
Could he but have known that he was hypothecating the more valuable animal with but slight chance of redeeming it, the bargain would have been off on the instant.
From No Quarter! by Mayne Reid
Mr. Lincoln went into the reasons which appeared to him to render this plan preferable to that of hypothecating the State bonds.
From The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 1: 1832-1843 by Abraham Lincoln
The Don would likely have provided him with the money, and he would have done it by hypothecating more of the Delcasar lands to MacDougall.
From The Blood of the Conquerors by Harvey Fergusson
