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 George Cary Eggleston
"He is trying to hypothecate the lot or any part of it at one-fifty."
From The Titan by Theodore Dreiser
Now here’s the proposition: according to law your father isn’t legally dead–he won’t be for seven years–and so your mother, not being his heir yet, had no right to hypothecate that stock.
From Shadow Mountain by Dane Coolidge
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
Cashier Rosenthal revealed that Richard Whitney had established "Richard Whitney's stock control account" in January, had transferred big batches of customers' securities to it, then apparently hypothecated them for personal loans.
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
"We are going to beat him; and, to show that I am prepared to back my convictions, I may say that I have already hypothecated every pennyworth of my English property."
From The Mistress of Bonaventure by Harold Bindloss
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
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
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's rather desperate as a result, and has been trying to borrow money by hypothecating the inheritance due him on his twenty-fifth birthday.
From Cappy Ricks Retires by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne
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
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