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What does hypothecate mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word hypothecate? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To pledge (something) as surety for a loan; to pawn, mortgage.
  2. (politics) To designate a new tax or tax increase for a specific expenditure
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Is each undivided co-owner free to hypothecate his or her share of property alone?
Therefore, they had drawn lots to determine which should hypothecate his overcoat in order to raise funds.
For it must be clearly understood that Paul is not asking us to fancy, or imagine, or hypothecate.
The Civil Code of Québec provides that each undivided co-owner may hypothecate his or her share of the property alone.
She would get Carmen to hypothecate her own interest in this new company, if necessary.
That is, he proposed to hypothecate the vectigalia from the new provinces formed by Pompey in the East for five years.

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