(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mere hypothecation, scoff politicians, rejecting the idea again in parliament yesterday.
(2) Full-blooded hypothecation would in theory dodge some of these weaknesses.
(3) We have found that nocodazole reversibly inhibits nuclear migration and can be used to induce karyokinesis before the completion of nuclear migration, resulting in spindles that are displaced toward the hypothecal end of the cell.
(4) In that package you put out this week for instance, the spending cuts to benefits are hypothecated towards childcare payments.
(5) "Funded by a hypothecated tax, the BBC feels empowered to offer something for everyone, even in areas well served by the market.
(6) In order to be able to claim it would be revenue-neutral – a kind of reverse hypothecation – a 0.3% cut in employers' national insurance contributions was made at the same time.
(7) That’s the reality, however passionately we might think this is the right solution, but certainly when Labour was in government and we did the penny on NI [national insurance] for the NHS, it was a semi-hypothecation to say it’s going to go on this specifically.
(8) The shadow treasurer, Chris Bowen, said the budget leak was a “desperate attempt to cover for the fact the Government will be adopting, in full, Labor’s policy on tobacco excise.” “Labor’s tobacco excise policy was fully and independently costed by the Parliamentary Budget Office.” “Labor has never directly hypothecated the revenue from tobacco excise for schools spending.
(9) The government has also hypothecated the savings from the cuts to family tax benefits as a way to “pay” for a $3.5bn childcare shake-up that was the centrepiece of this year’s budget.
(10) NI itself started as a hypothecated tax or "contribution" to fund social security including pensions (though not the NHS).
(11) There is a whisper that the government is considering a reprise of its previous increase of National Insurance rates, hypothecated for the NHS.
(12) The last time the debate about hypothecation captured attention was back in the 1990s, when Labour was struggling to assert its economic competence.
(13) Hypothecated taxes, as economists call them (deriving from the Greek hypotithenai, meaning "to give as pledge"), are usually opposed by finance ministries because they reduce central control.
(14) He refused to confirm that the £1bn funding will come from a squeeze on tax credits, arguing that no tax raising measure is hypothecated in this exact way.
(15) This would require some general taxation but could be gradually built up with more money from hypothecated taxes associated with health and consumption of care.
(16) British taxes are not hypothecated and he might as well say mansion tax is to pay for Trident submarines, but he has “promised” it to the NHS.
(17) The Treasury would hate this hypothecated tax, but it might just focus minds enough to kickstart a rational debate over the cost, funding and provision of modern healthcare.
(18) This would be seen as a particularly radical step because it would be a form of hypothecation – allowing a stream of revenue to be directed at a particular project.
(19) But hypothecation with a purpose, looking after the country's long-term interests, building up a reserve that can, in line with strict rules ( Norway's cap on annual spending of its vast fund is just 4% a year ) provide an insurance for everyone in an uncertain future.
(20) First, tumors should grow better and be less immunogenic in certain F1 hybrids than in their syngeneic parents, owing to the hypothecated cross-reactivity of the tumor-specific transplantation antigens with F1 antigens.
Pawn
Definition:
(n.) See Pan, the masticatory.
(n.) A man or piece of the lowest rank.
(n.) Anything delivered or deposited as security, as for the payment of money borrowed, or of a debt; a pledge. See Pledge, n., 1.
(n.) State of being pledged; a pledge for the fulfillment of a promise.
(n.) A stake hazarded in a wager.
(v. t.) To give or deposit in pledge, or as security for the payment of money borrowed; to put in pawn; to pledge; as, to pawn one's watch.
(v. t.) To pledge for the fulfillment of a promise; to stake; to risk; to wager; to hazard.
Example Sentences:
(1) Frederick Juuko, a Ugandan law professor and critic of foreign influence in Ugandan politics, agrees that homosexuality is a pawn for many in times of desperation, including government.
(2) I had jewellery, so I pawned all that, and I taught yoga – that paid the school fees.
(3) They could be playing these people – Morales, Chesimard – off as pawns.” While Cuba was once an attractive destination for criminals, revolutionaries and skyjackers – 34 of 62 American plane hijackers flew to Cuba in 1969 – Fidel Castro lost patience with the swarm as early as the 70s.
(4) In his two interrogations in Belgium, Abdeslam gave the impression he was merely a pawn of Abaaoud and his own brother Brahim, who blew himself up outside a Paris cafe.
(5) Snap – they're my photos 8 Extreme Mountain Unicycling This is wheely dangerous, said a spokesman … 9 How to win Chess in 4 moves Pawn movie 10 Dog Jumps Over A River Cute – you'll want to stream this video Source: Viral Video Chart .
(6) Experiments were done on wild type P. caudatum and on both the wild type and a pawn mutant of P. tetraurelia.
(7) For most women born into the political world, their job description is more pawn than queen: to serve as the physical embodiment of political alliances by marrying husbands chosen by their fathers and giving birth to male heirs.
(8) If in the past the 'louts' were forgotten, it looks like they could now be used as pawns by France's politicians.
(9) Mutants of Paramecium aurelia that are unable to reverse swimming direction are called pawns.
(10) We’re extremely worried that she’s being used as a political pawn.
(11) The kinetic properties of the ciliary membrane Ca2+ ATPase activity in wild type and several behavioral mutants were similar except for those in the pawn mutant, d495, and the paranoiac mutant, d490, both of which had lower specific activities.
(12) Photograph: PA Walker went on: “In stark contrast to how we were treated by the police, the CPS and court staff who were truly respectful and sensitive, I don’t think that as victims we have been treated with genuine respect, but are pawns in the BBC’s ambition to be seen to protect its reputation.
(13) But he added, repeating Putin's line, that people "should not turn into 'pawns' in the hands of those who want to destroy our country".
(14) He refers to the battle as a "different titans' game" which makes the Standard seem like a pawn.
(15) To keep up, the older generation has begun pawning heirlooms and jewellery to get through the winter.
(16) A small girl's placard proclaimed: "When the situation is as dire as this I don't mind my parents using me as a political pawn."
(17) Surrogate mothering and surrogate gestational mothering force us to redefine the age old dictum mater certa est and can render the child a helpless pawn in parental, emotional, and legal strife.
(18) The government of Nauru has said most incidents detailed in the Nauru files were “fabricated” and has accused Australian media and politicians of using refugees as political pawns.
(19) Two heat-sensitive "pawn" mutants of Paramecium aurelia are capable of avoiding reactions when grown at 23 degrees C but not at 35 degrees C. Electrophysiological analyses show that Ca activation is reduces in the mutants even when they are grown at 23 degrees C. The maximal rate of rise and the peak of the evoked action potential (Ca-spike) in the mutants are smaller than those of wild type in a K-solution.
(20) Contrary to media reports, most passengers have not become pawns in an epic industrial battle pitting the human right to free assembly against corporate self-determination.