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

Therefore they had drawn lots to determine which should hypothecate his overcoat in order to raise funds.

From Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 by Various

The acreage alone was to cost him a thousand; no telling what the drainage would cost, but whatever the figure there would not be profit enough to hypothecate.

From Young Wallingford by Chester, George Randolph

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