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 Upton Sinclair
It was a convenient policy of the priesthood, however, to hypothecate the claim for a human victim by accepting the substitution of a goodly number of horses or cows.
From Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 by Frank F. Ellinwood
True: she had mentioned some personal jewellery she planned to hypothecate.
From The Lone Wolf A Melodrama by Louis Joseph Vance
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
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
In 1926 he was so hard-pressed for funds that he hypothecated the funds of his wife's trust fund for a firm loan, subsequently repaid it.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Here, take this!” cried the Countess, handing him her watch, the same which had been hypothecated to José, but redeemed by a money payment.
From The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley by Mayne Reid
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 saw his way clear to meeting his obligations without the necessity of hypothecating the California timber; and was the better pleased for it.
From The Riverman by Stewart Edward White
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
It did not once occur to her that she could raise money by hypothecating the jewel at a pawn-shop: by hook or crook she was determined to regain her own money.
From Joan Thursday by Louis Joseph Vance
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
