Crossword-Solution: HYPOTHECATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hypothecate | v. t. | 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. |
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| Mortgage | 12 answers |
| Pledge | 65 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with HYPOTHECATE (5)
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.
There is a practice, formerly much more widely prevalent than it is now, of marking the horns of animals with the initials of a creditor, which is supposed to hypothecate the debtor's cattle effectually as against all but the landlord's claim for rent.
Then you hypothecate your stock in company number one, and you have your dummy directors lend you more money, and you buy another trust company.
The reply read: "Cultivate an easy, graceful manner." 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.
Just hypothecate ten thousand of those Union Cordage shares and five thousand Western Trolley, and buy Consolidated on a twenty per cent margin.