Definition of pledge

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Pledge (n.) 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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Pledget :: Pledget (n.) A compress, or small flat tent of lint, laid over a wound, ulcer, or the like, to exclude air, retain dressings, or absorb the matter discharged..
Borough :: Borough (n.) An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behavior of each other.
Gisle :: Gisle (n.) A pledge.
Wadset :: Wadset (n.) A kind of pledge or mortgage.
Pawn :: Pawn (n.) State of being pledged; a pledge for the fulfillment of a promise.
Dossil :: Dossil (n.) A small ovoid or cylindrical roil or pledget of lint, for keeping a sore, wound, etc., open; a tent..
Trothplighted :: Trothplighted (a.) Having fidelity pledged.
Impignorate :: Impignorate (v. t.) To pledge or pawn.
Pawnor :: Pawnor (n.) One who pawns or pledges anything as security for the payment of borrowed money or of a debt.
Pledge :: Pledge (n.) To secure performance of, as by a pledge..
Pledger :: Pledger (n.) One who pledges.
Pledge :: Pledge (n.) 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..
Hostage :: Hostage (n.) A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or stipulations of any kind, on the performance of which the person is to be released..
Redeemable :: Redeemable (a.) Capable of being redeemed; subject to repurchase; held under conditions permitting redemption; as, a pledge securing the payment of money is redeemable..
Gage :: Gage (n.) To bind by pledge, or security; to engage..
Wage :: Wage (v. t.) To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar..
Pledgeor :: Pledgeor (n.) Alt. of Pledgo.
Promise :: Promise (v. t.) To make declaration of or give assurance of, as some benefit to be conferred; to pledge or engage to bestow; as, the proprietors promised large tracts of land; the city promised a reward..
Sponson :: Sponsional (a.) Of or pertaining to a pledge or agreement; responsible.
Engagement :: Engagement (n.) The state of being engaged, pledged or occupied; specif., a pledge to take some one as husband or wife..
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