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

The trouble heretofore has been—I am quoting remarks of planters and steamboatmen—that the planters, although owning the land, were without cash capital; had to hypothecate both land and crop to carry on the business.

From Life on the Mississippi, Part 7. by Twain, Mark

"He is trying to hypothecate the lot or any part of it at one-fifty."

From The Titan by Dreiser, Theodore

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