Usually means: Pledge assets as security (loan).
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word hypothecate:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. hypothecate: Merriam-Webster
  2. hypothecate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hypothecate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hypothecate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hypothecate: Vocabulary.com
  6. hypothecate: Wordnik
  7. hypothecate: Wiktionary
  8. hypothecate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. hypothecate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. hypothecate: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. hypothecate: Dictionary.com
  12. Hypothecate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. hypothecate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. hypothecate: Rhymezone
  15. Hypothecate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. hypothecate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. hypothecate: FreeDictionary.org
  18. hypothecate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. hypothecate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. hypothecate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. hypothecate: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. hypothecate: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. hypothecate: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Hypothecate: INSOLVENCY
  8. hypothecate: Legal dictionary
  9. hypothecate: Financial dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hypothecate)

verb:  (transitive) To pledge (something) as surety for a loan; to pawn, mortgage.
verb:  (politics, British) To designate a new tax or tax increase for a specific expenditure.
verb:  (Australia) To designate in advance the specific purpose of expenditure for government revenues (especially taxes).

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