pledge

pledge
Synonyms and related words:
Bible oath, Greek, accounts payable, accounts receivable, affiliate, agree, amount due, associate, assurance, assure, avouch, avouchment, avow, bad debts, bail, belonger, bib, bill, bills, bind, bond, booze, borrowing, bottomry, brother, card-carrier, card-carrying member, cardholder, charges, charter member, cheer, chip in, chits, clubber, clubman, clubwoman, collateral, commit, committeeman, comrade, confide, consign, contract, contribute, contribute to, conventioneer, conventioner, conventionist, countersign, covenant, debt, deposit, dip, donate to, drain the cup, drink, drink in, drink off, drink to, drink up, due, dues, dues-paying member, earnest, earnest money, engage, enlistee, enrollee, entrust, escrow, extrajudicial oath, faith, fellow, financial commitment, floating debt, fraternity man, funded debt, gage, gift, gift with, give to, go bail, guarantee, guaranty, guildsman, guzzle, handsel, health, hock, honorary member, hostage, hypothecate, imbibe, impignorate, indebtedness, indebtment, initiate, insider, ironclad oath, joiner, judicial oath, kick in, liability, life member, loyalty oath, mainprise, make a promise, make imperative, make incumbent, maturity, member, mortgage, national debt, oath, oath of allegiance, oath of office, obligate, obligation, oblige, official oath, one of us, outstanding debt, parole, pass, pawn, pignus, plight, pop, post, promise, public debt, pull, put in hock, put in pawn, put up, quaff, recognizance, replevin, replevy, require, saddle with, score, security, sip, sister, socius, solemn declaration, solemn oath, sorority girl, sorority woman, spout, stake, subscribe, suck, suck in, suckle, sup, surety, swear, sweeten the kitty, swig, swill, test oath, tie, tipple, toast, token, token payment, toss down, toss off, tribute, troth, uncollectibles, undertake, undertaking, underwrite, unfulfilled pledge, vadimonium, vadium, vouch, vouchsafe, vow, warrant, warranty, wash down, word, word of honor

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  • pledge — 1 / plej/ n 1: a delivery of esp. personal property as security for a debt or other obligation; broadly: the perfection of a security interest in collateral through possession of the collateral by a creditor or other promisee 2 a: property and… …   Law dictionary

  • Pledge — Pledge, n. [OF. plege, pleige, pledge, guaranty, LL. plegium, plivium; akin to OF. plevir to bail, guaranty, perhaps fr. L. praebere to proffer, offer (sc. fidem a trust, a promise of security), but cf. also E. play. [root]28. Cf. {Prebend},… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Pledge — Pledge, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pledged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pledging}.] [Cf. OF. pleiger to give security. See {Pledge}, n.] 1. To deposit, as a chattel, in pledge or pawn; to leave in possession of another as security; as, to pledge one s watch.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • pledge# — pledge n Pledge, earnest, token, pawn, hostage are comparable when they denote something that is given or held as a sign of another s faith or intention to do what has been promised. Pledge, originally and still in some applications a technical… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • pledge — [plej] n. [ME plegge < OFr pleige < ML plegium < plevium, security, warranty, infl. by Frank * pligi, liability; akin to OS plegan, to warrant] 1. the condition of being given or held as security for a contract, payment, etc. [a thing… …   English World dictionary

  • Pledge 3 — (Негомбо,Шри Ланка) Категория отеля: 4 звездочный отель Адрес: No 3, Eththukala, 11500 Него …   Каталог отелей

  • pledge — (n.) mid 14c., surety, bail, from O.Fr. plege (Fr. pleige) hostage, security, bail, probably from Frankish *plegan to guarantee, from a West Germanic root meaning have responsibility for (Cf. O.Saxon plegan vouch for, O.H.G. pflegan to care for,… …   Etymology dictionary

  • pledge — [n1] word of honor agreement, assurance, covenant, guarantee, health, oath, promise, toast, undertaking, vow, warrant, word; concepts 71,278 Ant. break pledge [n2] sign of good faith bail, bond, collateral, deposit, earnest, gage, guarantee,… …   New thesaurus

  • Pledge — [plɛdʒ] das; <aus gleichbed. engl. pledge> (veraltet) Handgeld, Unterpfand …   Das große Fremdwörterbuch

  • pledge — ► NOUN 1) a solemn promise or undertaking. 2) Law a thing that is given as security for the fulfilment of a contract or the payment of a debt and is liable to forfeiture in the event of failure. 3) (the pledge) a solemn undertaking to abstain… …   English terms dictionary

  • Pledge — (engl., spr. pledsch), Pfand; Gelübde bei Aufnahme in einen Mäßigkeits (Temperenz ) Verein …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

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