Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To pledge (property) as security or collateral without delivery of title or possession.
- transitive verb Usage Problem To hypothesize.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb (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 .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To pledge (something) as surety for a loan; to
pawn ,mortgage . - verb politics, UK To designate a new tax or tax increase for a specific expenditure
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
- verb pledge without delivery or title of possession
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Yesterday's term was hypothecate, which is defined as:
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Yesterday's term was hypothecate, which is defined as:
Define That Term #74 2006
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If Jason's daddy was a schlepper with no collateral to hypothecate this mortgage wouldn't get done today.
Martin T. Sosnoff: My S&M Relationship With Citi and Morgan Martin T. Sosnoff 2011
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If Jason's daddy was a schlepper with no collateral to hypothecate this mortgage wouldn't get done today.
Martin T. Sosnoff: My S&M Relationship With Citi and Morgan Martin T. Sosnoff 2011
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When the Senator is trapped in the coils of his own creation – did he hypothesize or hypothecate?
Stromata Blog: 2008
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When the Senator is trapped in the coils of his own creation – did he hypothesize or hypothecate?
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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.
The Financier 2004
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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).
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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).
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“He is trying to hypothecate the lot or any part of it at one-fifty.”
The Titan 2004
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