hypothec
C2CEFR level
95/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
A charge or security over property that remains in the debtor's possession.
The landlord's hypothec secured the arrears of rent over the tenant's goods.
Business noun
A lender's security interest in property that remains in the borrower's possession.
The bank registered a hypothec over the vineyard while leaving the grower to work the land.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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