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Definition of pledge

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Pledge (n.) 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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Pawnbroker :: Pawnbroker (n.) One who makes a business of lending money on the security of personal property pledged or deposited in his keeping.

Bet :: Bet (n.) That which is laid, staked, or pledged, as between two parties, upon the event of a contest or any contingent issue; the act of giving such a pledge; a wager..

Commitment :: Commitment (n.) The act of pledging or engaging; the act of exposing, endangering, or compromising; also, the state of being pledged or engaged..

Distress :: Distress (n.) The act of distraining; the taking of a personal chattel out of the possession of a wrongdoer, by way of pledge for redress of an injury, or for the performance of a duty, as for nonpayment of rent or taxes, or for injury done by cattle, etc..

Deposit :: Deposit (v. t.) That which is placed anywhere, or in any one's hands, for safe keeping; something intrusted to the care of another; esp., money lodged with a bank or banker, subject to order; anything given as pledge or security..

Propine :: Propine (n.) A pledge.

Impignorate :: Impignorate (v. t.) To pledge or pawn.

Pledge :: Pledge (n.) To give or pass as a security; to guarantee; to engage; to plight; as, to pledge one's word and honor..

Oppignerate :: Oppignerate (v. i.) To pledge; to pawn.

Gage :: Gage (n.) A pledge or pawn; something laid down or given as a security for the performance of some act by the person depositing it, and forfeited by nonperformance; security..

Redeem :: Redeem (v. t.) To ransom, liberate, or rescue from captivity or bondage, or from any obligation or liability to suffer or to be forfeited, by paying a price or ransom; to ransom; to rescue; to recover; as, to redeem a captive, a pledge, and the like..

Mortgage :: Mortgage (v. t.) Hence: To pledge, either literally or figuratively; to make subject to a claim or obligation..

Pledge :: Pledge (n.) 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..

Band :: Band (v. t.) Pledge; security.

Burghbrech :: Burghbrech (n.) The offense of violating the pledge given by every inhabitant of a tithing to keep the peace; breach of the peace.

Dossil :: Dossil (n.) A small ovoid or cylindrical roil or pledget of lint, for keeping a sore, wound, etc., open; a tent..

Safe-pledge :: Safe-pledge (n.) A surety for the appearance of a person at a given time.

Pledger :: Pledger (n.) One who pledges.

Pledget :: Pledget (n.) A string of oakum used in calking.

Pledge :: Pledge (n.) 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..