1 ~ (to do sth) a serious promise:
a pledge of help / support / loyalty * Will the government honour its election pledge not to raise taxes? * Management has given a pledge that there will be no job losses this year.
2 a sum of money or sth valuable that you leave with sb to prove that you will do sth or pay back money that you owe
IDIOMS
sign / take the pledge (old-fashioned) to make a promise never to drink alcohol
Part of speech: verb
1 ~ sth (to sb/sth) to formally promise to give or do sth:
[VN] Japan has pledged $100 million in humanitarian aid. * The government pledged their support for the plan. * We all had to pledge allegiance to the flag (= state that we are loyal to our country). * [Vtoinf] The group has pledged to continue campaigning. * [V(that)] The group has pledged that they will continue campaigning.
2 ~ sb / yourself (to sth) to make sb or yourself formally promise to do sth:
[VN] They were all pledged to secrecy. * [VNtoinf] The government has pledged itself to root out corruption.
3 [VN] to leave sth with sb as a pledge(2)
4 (AmE) to promise to become a junior member of a FRATERNITY or SORORITY:
[V] Do you think you'll pledge this semester? * [VN] My brother pledged Sigma NU.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for pledge is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is pledge a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, pledge is tagged as noun.
Does pledge appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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