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
She would get Carmen to hypothecate her own interest in this new company, if necessary.
From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis
She could hypothecate her income; sell her jewels.
From An Oregon Girl A Tale of American Life in the New West by Rice, Alfred Ernest
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 Ellinwood, Frank F.
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