Definition of "hypothecating" [hypothecating]

• Present participle of hypothecate. (verb)

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• "He discovers that he could borrow $15,000 from his banker using the note as collateral this is called hypothecating, but he doesn’t like the idea of being in debt to anyone."
• "I walked in upon Madeira with a pretty little notion that you and I had had something to do with the projection of a plan for developing and mining the Tigmores; I could have sworn that we originated the idea of hypothecating my heirship to the Canaan Tigmores;"
• "What I deliberately chose to do, was an attempt to elicit fuller response, to see whether you were hypothecating or whether you were actually attempting to argue that pay is disproportionate purely because of greater proportions of female officers being in lower ranks."