hypothecate

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In like case I might hypothecate, "To go light, discard all but the really necessary articles The sticking-point, were you to press me close, would be the definition of the word "necessary," for the terms of such definition would have to be those solely and simply of a man's experience.

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  1. transitive verb To pledge (property) as security or collateral for a debt without transfer of title or possession.

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  • Cabal, and they are being used to hypothecate, transfer, service, or otherwise carry this debt held by certain foreign central banks. —  Wake Up From Your Slumber - The Truth Will Set You Free
  • Naked short selling is the illegal act of short selling a stock when no affirmative determination has been made to locate shares of the stock to hypothecate in connection with the short sale.
  • In like case I might hypothecate, "To go light, discard all but the really necessary articles The sticking-point, were you to press me close, would be the definition of the word "necessary," for the terms of such definition would have to be those solely and simply of a man's experience. —  The Forest
  • "He is trying to hypothecate the lot or any part of it at one-fifty." —  The Titan
  • There's all those shares we bought to-day which we ought to be able to hypothecate with somebody. —  The Titan
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  1. Medieval Latin hypothēcāre, hypothēcāt-, from Latin hypothēca, pledge, deposit, from Greek hupothēkē, from hupotithenai, to give as a pledge, suppose; see hypothesis.

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  1. from Middle Latin hypothecatus, past participle of hypothecare, hypothecate, from Late Latin hypotheca, a pledge: see hypothec.
 

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