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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

Therefore they had drawn lots to determine which should hypothecate his overcoat in order to raise funds.

From Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 by Various

There was no course for Sandford, then, but to sell or hypothecate the shares of stock he held.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 by Various

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

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

His property has been nearly all hypothecated in the deed to Darke; who perceives his long-cherished dream on the eve of becoming a reality.

From The Death Shot A Story Retold 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

He could see where, all told, he might raise seventy-five thousand dollars by hypothecating double the amount in shares; but this was ridiculously insufficient.

From The Financier, a novel by Theodore Dreiser

The Don would likely have provided him with the money, and he would have done it by hypothecating more of the Delcasar lands to MacDougall.

From The Blood of the Conquerors by Harvey Fergusson