transcription, транскрипция: [ pledʒ ]
( pledges, pledging, pledged)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
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.
= promise
N-COUNT : usu N to-inf
2.
When someone pledges to do something, they promise in a serious way to do it. When they pledge something, they promise to give it.
Mr Dudley has pledged to give any award to charity...
Philip pledges support and offers to help in any way that he can...
I pledge that by next year we will have the problem solved.
VERB : V to-inf , V n , V that
3.
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.
The French President is pledging $150 million in French aid next year...
VERB : V n
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Pledge is also a noun.
...a pledge of forty two million dollars a month.
N-COUNT : oft N of n
4.
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.
The President pledged himself to increase taxes for the rich but not the middle classes...
The treaties renounce the use of force and pledge the two countries to co-operation.
= commit
VERB : V pron-refl to-inf , V n to n
5.
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.
He asked her to pledge the house as security for a loan.
VERB : V n