the use of property, or an existing mortgage, as security for a loan, etc.

(Britain) A tax levied for a specific expenditure.

plural of hypothecation

(law) In Scotland, a landlord's right over the stocking (cattle, implements, etc.), and crops of his tenant, as security for payment of rent.

(transitive) To pledge (something) as surety for a loan; to pawn, mortgage. / (politics, Britain) To designate a new tax or tax increase for a specific expenditure

(microbiology, planktology) Of or pertaining to the hypotheca, the lower half of the shell of certain types of plankton

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hypothecate

simple past tense and past participle of hypothecate

present participle of hypothecate

plural of hypothec