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
Just hypothecate ten thousand of those Union Cordage shares and five thousand Western Trolley, and buy Consolidated on a twenty per cent margin.
From The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation by Harry Leon Wilson
He will not repudiate a promise to pay while he has money in bank or securities to hypothecate.
From The Pride of Palomar by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne
For it must be clearly understood that Paul is not asking us to fancy, or imagine, or hypothecate.
From The Theology of Holiness by Dougan Clark
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
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
Sources of public revenue were paralysed or hypothecated; there was not a dollar in the treasury; and private enterprise and the activities of ordinary wealth were ruined.
From Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development by Martin Hume
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
"It seems to have been a case," went on the detective unhurriedly, "of dropping down the scale for her until she was up against the question of diving into East River—or hypothecating the one asset."
From The Tyranny of Weakness by Paul Stahr
It was as though he had suddenly cashed in on all his available resources of happiness, hypothecating them for the immediate and attainable yet romantic present.
From Command by William McFee
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
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
