PLEDGE
\plˈɛd͡ʒ], \plˈɛdʒ], \p_l_ˈɛ_dʒ]\
Definitions of PLEDGE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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someone accepted for membership but not yet fully admitted to the group
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a deposit of personal property as security for a debt; "his saxophone was in pledge"
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bind or secure by a pledge; "I was pledged to silence"
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pay (an amount of money) as a contribution to a charity or service, especially at regular intervals; "I pledged $10 a month to my favorite radio station"
By Princeton University
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someone accepted for membership but not yet fully admitted to the group
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a deposit of personal property as security for a debt; "his saxophone was in pledge"
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bind or secure by a pledge
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The transfer of possession of personal property from a debtor to a creditor as security for a debt or engagement; also, the contract created between the debtor and creditor by a thing being so delivered or deposited, forming a species of bailment; also, that which is so delivered or deposited; something put in pawn.
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A person who undertook, or became responsible, for another; a bail; a surety; a hostage.
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A hypothecation without transfer of possession.
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Anything given or considered as a security for the performance of an act; a guarantee; as, mutual interest is the best pledge for the performance of treaties.
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A promise or agreement by which one binds one's self to do, or to refrain from doing, something; especially, a solemn promise in writing to refrain from using intoxicating liquors or the like; as, to sign the pledge; the mayor had made no pledges.
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A sentiment to which assent is given by drinking one's health; a toast; a health.
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To deposit, as a chattel, in pledge or pawn; to leave in possession of another as security; as, to pledge one's watch.
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To give or pass as a security; to guarantee; to engage; to plight; as, to pledge one's word and honor.
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To secure performance of, as by a pledge.
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To bind or engage by promise or declaration; to engage solemnly; as, to pledge one's self.
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To invite another to drink, by drinking of the cup first, and then handing it to him, as a pledge of good will; hence, to drink the health of; to toast.
By Oddity Software
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The transfer of possession of personal property from a debtor to a creditor as security for a debt or engagement; also, the contract created between the debtor and creditor by a thing being so delivered or deposited, forming a species of bailment; also, that which is so delivered or deposited; something put in pawn.
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A person who undertook, or became responsible, for another; a bail; a surety; a hostage.
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A hypothecation without transfer of possession.
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Anything given or considered as a security for the performance of an act; a guarantee; as, mutual interest is the best pledge for the performance of treaties.
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A promise or agreement by which one binds one's self to do, or to refrain from doing, something; especially, a solemn promise in writing to refrain from using intoxicating liquors or the like; as, to sign the pledge; the mayor had made no pledges.
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A sentiment to which assent is given by drinking one's health; a toast; a health.
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To deposit, as a chattel, in pledge or pawn; to leave in possession of another as security; as, to pledge one's watch.
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To give or pass as a security; to guarantee; to engage; to plight; as, to pledge one's word and honor.
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To secure performance of, as by a pledge.
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To bind or engage by promise or declaration; to engage solemnly; as, to pledge one's self.
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To invite another to drink, by drinking of the cup first, and then handing it to him, as a pledge of good will; hence, to drink the health of; to toast.
By Noah Webster.
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Anything placed as a security or guarantee; a pawn; a drinking of a health as an expression of good will or a promise; an agreement or promise to do or not to do something; a token of good will.
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To give as security or guarantee; put in pawn; to bind by a promise; drink to the health of.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A security: surety.
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To give as security: to engage for by promise: to invite to drink by partaking of the cup first: to drink to the health of.
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PLEDGER.
By Daniel Lyons
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PLEDGER.
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To deposit as security for a loan.
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To drink the health of.
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A guaranty for the performance of an act.
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A promise.
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The drinking of a health.
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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n. [French, Italian, Anglo-Saxon, Latin, Greek] Something put in pawn, or deposited as a security for a debt or engagement; a gage; a surety; hostage; bail;—a promise; a profession of principles;—a written promise or agreement;—act of drinking to the health of; invitation to drink.
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