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
These bonds they dispose of or hypothecate to obtain loans on.
From Disputed Handwriting An exhaustive, valuable, and comprehensive work upon one of the most important subjects of to-day. With illustrations and expositions for the detection and study of forgery by handwriting of all kinds by Jerome Buell Lavay
She would get Carmen to hypothecate her own interest in this new company, if necessary.
From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking
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
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
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
Now, if there be no vital principle, all the metaphysical and moral theories which have been hypothecated on its existence, must be reconstructed.
From The Man With The Broken Ear by Henry Holt
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
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
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
