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

"He is trying to hypothecate the lot or any part of it at one-fifty."

From The Titan by Dreiser, Theodore

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

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

From The Forest by White, Stewart Edward