- pledge
- [[t]ple̱ʤ[/t]]
♦♦♦pledges, pledging, pledged1) N-COUNT: usu N to-inf When someone makes a pledge, they make a serious promise that they will do something.
The meeting ended with a pledge to step up cooperation between the six states of the region.
...a ₤1.1m pledge of support from the Spanish ministry of culture.
Syn:2) VERB When someone pledges to do something, they promise in a serious way to do it. When they pledge something, they promise to give it.[V to-inf] The Communists have pledged to support the opposition's motion...
[V n] Philip pledges support and offers to help in any way that he can...
[V that] I pledge that by next year we will have the problem solved.
3) VERB If you pledge a sum of money to an organization or activity, you promise to pay that amount of money to it at a particular time or over a particular period.[V n] The French President is pledging $150 million in French aid next year...
[V n] The government has now pledged ₤170m over the next six years for improving primary care.
N-COUNT: oft N of nPledge is also a noun....pledge of forty two million dollars a month.
4) VERB If you pledge yourself to something, you commit yourself to following a particular course of action or to supporting a particular person, group, or idea.[V pron-refl to-inf] The President pledged himself to increase taxes for the rich but not the middle classes...
[V pron-refl to n] Tony Cottee has pledged himself to Everton Football Club for another three years...
[V n to n] The treaties renounce the use of force and pledge the two countries to co-operation.
Syn:5) VERB If you pledge something such as a valuable possession or a sum of money, you leave it with someone as a guarantee that you will repay money that you have borrowed.[V n] He asked her to pledge the house as security for a loan.
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English dictionary. 2008.
