Word Meanings - PLEDGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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;

Additional info about word: PLEDGE

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. Note: Pledge is ordinarily confined to personal property; the title or ownership does not pass by it; possession is essential to it. In all these points it differs from a mortgage ; and in the last, from the hypotheca of the Roman law. See Hypotheca. Story. Kent. (more info) plivium; akin to OF. plevir to bail, guaranty, perhaps fr. L. praebere to proffer, offer (sc. fidem a trust, a promise of

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PLEDGE)

• Engage
• Promise
• undertake
• vouch
• employ
• occupy
• hire
• gain
• attract
• enlist
• stipulate
• pledge
• agree
• buy
• adopt
• involve
• Gage
• bind
• secure
• pawn
• deposit
• Pawn
• Pledge
• impignorate
• Plight
• Vow
• Security
• guarantee
• warranty
• protection
• safeguard
• bond
• defence
• guard
• shelter
• safety
• certainty
• ease
• assurance
• carelessness
• confidence

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PLEDGE)

• Redeem
• Loosen
• betray
• surrender
• expose
• imperil
• endanger
• open
• liberate
• free
• Expose

Related words: (words related to PLEDGE)

• CONFIDENCE
  1. The act of confiding, trusting, or putting faith in; trust; reliance; belief; -- formerly followed by of, now commonly by in. Society is built upon trust, and trust upon confidence of one another's integrity. South. A cheerful confidence in
• DEPOSITOR
  One who makes a deposit, especially of money in bank; -- the correlative of depository.
• GUARDIAN
  One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs. Of the several species of guardians, the first are guardians by nature. -- viz.,
• GUARDIANSHIP
  The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch.
• DEFENCE
  See DEFENSE
• SAFETY BICYCLE
  A bicycle with equal or nearly equal wheels, usually 28 inches diameter, driven by pedals connected to the rear wheel by a multiplying gear.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• GUARDIANESS
  A female guardian. I have placed a trusty, watchful guardianess. Beau. & Fl.
• INVOLVEDNESS
  The state of being involved.
• SHELTERLESS
  Destitute of shelter or protection. Now sad and shelterless perhaps she lies. Rowe.
• GUARDIANLESS
  Without a guardian. Marston.
• GUARDER
  One who guards.
• REDEEM
  Hence, to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. Gal. iii. 13. 5. To make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem
• ATTRACTABILITY
  The quality or fact of being attractable. Sir W. Jones.
• GUARDANT
  See GARDANT (more info) 1. Acting as guardian. Shak.
• PLEDGERY
  A pledging; suretyship.
• PLEDGE
  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;
• ATTRACTILE
  Having power to attract.
• GUARDS
  A body of picked troops; as, "The Household Guards."
• VOUCHMENT
  A solemn assertion.
• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• COMPROMISE
  promise to abide by the decision of an arbiter, fr. compromittere to 1. A mutual agreement to refer matters in dispute to the decision of arbitrators. Burrill. 2. A settlement by arbitration or by mutual consent reached by concession on both
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• REENGAGEMENT
  A renewed or repeated engagement.
• UNPROMISE
  To revoke or annul, as a promise. Chapman.
• REENLISTMENT
  A renewed enlistment.
• AVOUCHMENT
  The act of avouching; positive declaration. Milton.
• EXSTIPULATE
  Having no stipules. Martyn.
• INTERPLEDGE
  To pledge mutually.
• COUNTERGUARD
  A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire.