Sentence examples for hypothecate from inspiring English sources
The word "hypothecate" is a valid word in English and it can be used in written English
It means to put up collateral (usually property) as security for the repayment of a loan. It can also be used in a figurative sense, to mean to make a guarantee or promise. For example, "The bank required that the company hypothecate their future profits as surety for the loan".
verb
To pledge (something) as surety for a loan; to pawn, mortgage.
JR: Tax private companies, rather than students, and use that to fund universities: Hypothecate the money back to the university where the graduate studied and do away with fees.
Hypothecate some of the revenue from fuel taxes for local projects like Safe Routes to School, cycle paths and so on.
Or how it makes sense for ministers to hypothecate a specific unpalatable budget cut with possible new spending when everyone knows there are many options available to reduce spending.
What that calculation doesn't hypothecate is the cost down the line of people who've been left infertile by untreated STIs.
(The elder Bush gave us such gems as, "I'm not going to hypothecate that it may". And, "It's no exaggeration to say the undecideds could go one way or another". And, "Please just don't look at part of the glass -- the part that is only less than half full").
Earmarking or "hypothecating" the proceeds of "climate change taxes" towards green goals would help the UK fulfil its international obligations to support global low-carbon development and show taxpayers that the new levies have a genuine environmental purpose.
It would be foolish to claim that a one-off levy - hypothecated for reducing fuel prices at the bottom of the income scale - had no disadvantages.
This will help pair investors with projects that will generate a revenue stream to be hypothecated to cover the cost of the original investment, plus a return.
A report, commissioned by the chancellor from Lord Marshall into the merits of an industrial energy tax, recommended the recycling of carbon-tax revenues into environmental protection.The Treasury is still resisting hypothecating mainstream tax revenues.
Both the Road Fund and the National Insurance fund started life as hypothecated taxes in the early 20th century but ended up firmly in the Treasury's maw.The National Lottery is a more recent case.
Speed-camera fines, for example, will rise by 50% to £60 to meet the costs of enforcement.The Treasury has sought to draw a distinction between charges for, say, parking or congestion (the revenues of which it accepts can be hypothecated), and ordinary taxes which must remain inviolate.
