pledge

Meaning

1. To make a solemn promise (to do something).
2. To deposit something as a security; to pawn.
3. To give assurance of friendship by the act of drinking; to drink to one's health.

promise

vow

partial payment

give one’s word

take an oath

give an undertaking

give one’s word to do

give something as an earnest

lay a deposit

monetary deposit

commit oneself

make a promise

mortage

put in pawn

share bed and board

conspire with

written vow

testee

mortagage

pledged asset

give a deposit

give in pledge

put in pledge

caliculus

job candidate

negotiable bond

religious vows

abjuration

engagment

address

declaration of intention

make a pledge

make a vow

troth

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/plɛd͡ʒ/

From Middle English plege, from Anglo-Norman plege, from Old French plege (Modern French pleige) from Medieval Latin plevium, plebium, from plebiō (“I pledge”), from Frankish *plehan (“to pledge; to support; to guarantee”). Akin to Old High German pflegan (“to take care of, be accustomed to”), Old Saxon plegan (“to vouch for”), Old English plēon (“to risk, endanger”). More at plight.

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