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 Stocking, Charles Francis
He had no power to hypothecate any part of the public revenue.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
The trouble heretofore has been—I am quoting remarks of planters and steamboatmen—that the planters, although owning the land, were without cash capital; had to hypothecate both land and crop to carry on the business.
From Life on the Mississippi, Part 7. by Twain, Mark
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