English edit

Etymology edit

hypothecate +‎ -or

Noun edit

hypothecator (plural hypothecators)

  1. (law) One who hypothecates or pledges anything as security for the repayment of money borrowed.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for hypothecator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)