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
In like case I might hypothecate, "To go light, discard all but the really necessary articles."
From The Forest by White, Stewart Edward
He will not repudiate a promise to pay while he has money in bank or securities to hypothecate.
From The Pride of Palomar by Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard)
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
