Word Meanings - PLEDGEE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The one to whom a pledge is given, or to whom property pledged is delivered.

Related words: (words related to PLEDGEE)

• DELIVERANCE
  Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness. (more info) 1. The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like;
• DELIVERABLE
  Capable of being, or about to be, delivered; necessary to be delivered. Hale.
• 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;
• PLEDGEOR; PLEDGOR
  One who pledges, or delivers anything in pledge; a pledger; -- opposed to Ant: pledgee. Note: This word analogically requires the e after g, but the spelling pledgor is perhaps commoner.
• PROPERTY
  All the adjuncts of a play except the scenery and the dresses of the actors; stage requisites. I will draw a bill of properties. Shak. 6. Propriety; correctness. Camden. Literary property. See under Literary. -- Property man, one who has charge
• DELIVERLY
  Actively; quickly; nimbly. Swim with your bodies, And carry it sweetly and deliverly. Beau. & Fl.
• PLEDGELESS
  Having no pledge.
• PLEDGER
  One who pledges.
• PLEDGEE
  The one to whom a pledge is given, or to whom property pledged is delivered.
• DELIVERNESS
  Nimbleness; agility.
• GIVEN
  p. p. & a. from Give, v.
• DELIVERER
  1. One who delivers or rescues; a preserver. 2. One who relates or communicates.
• DELIVER
  1. To set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to release; to liberate, as from control; to give up; to free; to save; to rescue from evil actual or feared; -- often with from or out of; as, to deliver one from captivity, or from fear of death.
• PLEDGET
  A string of oakum used in calking. (more info) 1. A small plug.
• DELIVERESS
  A female de Evelyn.
• DELIVERY
  1. The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon. 2. The act of delivering up or over; surrender; transfer of the body or substance of a thing; distribution; as, the delivery of
• REDELIVER
  1. To deliver or give back; to return. Ay 2. To deliver or liberate a second time or again. 3. To report; to deliver the answer of. "Shall I redeliver you e'en so" Shak.
• INTERPLEDGE
  To pledge mutually.
• REDELIVERY
  1. Act of delivering back. 2. A second or new delivery or liberation.
• SAFE-PLEDGE
  A surety for the appearance of a person at a given time. Bracton.
• IMPLEDGE
  To pledge. Sir W. Scott.
• IMPROPERTY
  Impropriety.
• FORGIVENESS
  1. The act of forgiving; the state of being forgiven; as, the forgiveness of sin or of injuries. To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses. Dan. ix. 9. In whom we have . . . the forgiveness of sin. Eph. i. 7. 2. Disposition to pardon;
• REDELIVERANCE
  A second deliverance.