hypothecate

[hahy-poth-i-keyt] / haɪˈpɒθ ɪˌkeɪt /

VERB

pawn

Synonyms

STRONG

deposit hazard hock hook mortgage pledge

WEAK

give in earnest

Example Sentences

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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 could hypothecate her income; sell her jewels.

From An Oregon Girl A Tale of American Life in the New West by Rice, Alfred Ernest

True: she had mentioned some personal jewellery she planned to hypothecate.

From The Lone Wolf A Melodrama by Vance, Louis Joseph

These bonds they dispose of or hypothecate to obtain loans on.

From Disputed Handwriting An exhaustive, valuable, and comprehensive work upon one of the most important subjects of to-day. With illustrations and expositions for the detection and study of forgery by handwriting of all kinds by Lavay, Jerome Buell