Betydelse av hock på svenska

• 0 in debt:

  • The company's entire assets are now in hock to the banks.

  • Most of her jewellery is in hock.

• 1 the middle joint in the back leg of an animal such as a horse

  • ham hocks

• 2 a type of white wine from Germany

• 3 to sell something that you hope to buy back later because you need money now:

  • She had to hock her wedding ring.

• 4 to exchange in return for borrowing money; pawn:

  • to hock jewelry

• 5 To be in hock is to have a debt:

  • The state is in hock already, with a $13 billion deficit.

• 6 in debt:

  • Most construction firms are deeply in hock to a single bank rather than to a handful of lenders.

  • He put everything he had in hock to buy the house, and still ended up owing money.

• 7 to get into or get out of debt:

  • Until we either curb our appetite for imports or become a lot better at exporting, the more we trade the deeper we go into hock

  • Few believe that any legal action can yield the billions that the company needs to get out of hock.

• 8 to pawn a possession (= leave it temporarily with someone in exchange for an amount of money that must be paid back after a particular period of time to prevent it from being sold):

  • People in a financial difficulty often possess something of value to hock.