Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To pledge (property) as security or collateral for a debt without transfer of title or possession.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To pledge to a creditor in security for some debt or demand, but without giving the creditor corporeal control; mortgage, leaving the owner in possession.
- To put in pledge by delivery, as stocks or effects of any kind, as security for a debt or other obligation.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive To pledge (something) as surety for a loan; to pawn, mortgage.
- v. politics, UK To designate a new tax or tax increase for a specific expenditure
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. (Law) To subject, as property, to liability for a debt or engagement without delivery of possession or transfer of title; to pledge without delivery of possession; to mortgage, as ships, or other personal property; to make a contract by bottomry. See hypothecation, bottomry.
WordNet 3.0
- v. to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
- v. pledge without delivery or title of possession
Etymologies
- From Latin hypothecatus, past participle of hypothecare. This was in turn derived from Ancient Greek ὑποθήκη (hupothēkē, "a pledge"), from the verb ὑποτίθημι (hupotithēmi, "to pledge as surety"). (Wiktionary)
- Medieval Latin hypothēcāre, hypothēcāt-, from Latin hypothēca, pledge, deposit, from Greek hupothēkē, from hupotithenai, to give as a pledge, suppose; see hypothesis. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Yesterday's term was hypothecate, which is defined as:”
“If Jason's daddy was a schlepper with no collateral to hypothecate this mortgage wouldn't get done today.”
The Huffington Post: Martin T. Sosnoff: My S&M Relationship With Citi and Morgan
“When the Senator is trapped in the coils of his own creation – did he hypothesize or hypothecate?”
““He is trying to hypothecate the lot or any part of it at one-fifty.””
“He could buy certificates of city loan for the sinking-fund up to any reasonable amount, hypothecate them where he pleased, and draw his pay from the city without presenting a voucher.”
“For example, both Scalia and Rehnquist misused the word “hypothecate,” apparently confusing it with the near homonym “hypothesize,” which, admittedly, a dictionary or two will give as a secondary definition (in my view, this merely a reification of the sound-alike confusion and reflects the descriptive (as opposed to prescriptive) philosophy of the editor).”
“She had arranged to hypothecate her half of the equity, to pay for the charter.”
“So, I'm not going to hypothecate that anything goes too fast.”
“There was no course for Sandford, then, but to sell or hypothecate the shares of stock he held.”
“They hypothecate a condition in which utter promiscuity prevailed.”
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