- a solemn promise or agreement to do or refrain from doing something: a pledge of aid;a pledge not to wage war.
- something delivered as security for the payment of a debt or fulfillment of a promise, and subject to forfeiture on failure to pay or fulfill the promise.
- the state of being given or held as security: to put a thing in pledge.
- Law.
- the act of delivering goods, property, etc., to another for security.
- the resulting legal relationship.
- something given or regarded as a security.
- a person accepted for membership in a club, fraternity, or sorority, but not yet formally approved.
- an assurance of support or goodwill conveyed by drinking a person's health; a toast.
- Obsolete.
- a hostage.
- a person who becomes bail or surety for another.
- to bind by or as if by a pledge: to pledge hearers to secrecy.
- to promise solemnly: to pledge one's support.
- to give or deposit as a pledge; pawn.
- to stake, as one's honor.
- to secure by a pledge; give a pledge for.
- to accept as a pledge for club, fraternity, or sorority membership.
- to drink a health or toast to.
- to make or give a pledge: to pledge for someone.
- to drink a pledge; toast someone's health, success, etc.
- to make a solemn, formal vow to abstain from intoxicating drink.
- a formal or solemn promise or agreement, esp to do or refrain from doing something
- collateral for the payment of a debt or the performance of an obligation
- the condition of being collateral (esp in the phrase in pledge)
- a sign, token, or indication
- an assurance of support or goodwill, conveyed by drinking to a person, cause, etc; toast
- a person who binds himself, as by becoming bail or surety for another
- to make a vow to abstain from alcoholic drink
- to promise formally or solemnly
- to bind or secure by or as if by a pledge
- to give, deposit, or offer (one's word, freedom, property, etc) as a guarantee, as for the repayment of a loan
- to drink a toast to (a person, cause, etc)
