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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

I must hypothecate produce, and protect my correspondents.

From Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

Now here’s the proposition: according to law your father isn’t legally dead–he won’t be for seven years–and so your mother, not being his heir yet, had no right to hypothecate that stock.

From Shadow Mountain by Dane Coolidge

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 George Randolph Chester

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

"However, Mr. Eaton had failed to deliver $12,000,000 worth of the stocks sold because they were already hypothecated with banks for a $5,100,000 loan."

From Time Magazine Archive

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

The King of Prussia has hypothecated in trust to the Regicides his rich and fertile territories on the Rhine, as a pledge of his zeal and affection to the cause of liberty and equality.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

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

If any one of us wants money, Roguin will get it for him by hypothecating his share.

From Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Honoré de Balzac

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

He's rather desperate as a result, and has been trying to borrow money by hypothecating the inheritance due him on his twenty-fifth birthday.

From Cappy Ricks Retires by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

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