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 is nothing for it but to hypothecate a part of my stock in the X National.

From A Captain in the Ranks A Romance of Affairs by Eggleston, George Cary

There's all those shares we bought to-day which we ought to be able to hypothecate with somebody.

From The Titan by Dreiser, Theodore

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