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
There's all those shares we bought to-day which we ought to be able to hypothecate with somebody.
From The Titan by Theodore Dreiser
She could hypothecate her income; sell her jewels.
From An Oregon Girl A Tale of American Life in the New West by Alfred Ernest Rice
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
Dr. Jeans hypothecated that our planetary system was produced by the collision or close approach of another star to the sun.
From Time Magazine Archive
"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
What a pity my own acres are already hypothecated!
From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea 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
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 was as though he had suddenly cashed in on all his available resources of happiness, hypothecating them for the immediate and attainable yet romantic present.
From Command by William McFee
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
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
