pledge

Definition

  • noun: a serious promise or agreement
  • noun: a bailment of a chattel as security for a debt or other obligation without involving transfer of title
  • verb: to formally promise to give or do (something)
  • verb: to make a pledge of
  • synonyms: earnest, bail, surety

Examples

  • She 'pledged' herself to silence. [=she promised that she would not say anything]

  • The chefs are 'pledged' to keep the restaurant's special recipe a secret.

  • We've all 'pledged' (our) loyalty/support/allegiance to the organization.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) - The king doth wake tonight and takes his muse Keeps wassail and a swaggering upspring reels, and as he drains his drafts of rhenish down... ...the kettledrum and trumpet thus bray out the triumph of his pledge - Is it a custom? - Aye, many it is But to my mind, though I am native here (..)
    2015 Hamlet