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say it: plej
pledge is a verb and noun meaning "promise solemnly and formally". It is pronounced /ˈplɛdʒ/ — plej. It carries 9 recorded senses.
pay (an amount of money) as a contribution to a charity or service, especially at regular intervals
“I pledged $10 a month to my favorite radio station”
a deposit of personal property as security for a debt
“his saxophone was in pledge”
someone accepted for membership but not yet fully admitted to the group
a binding commitment to do or give or refrain from something
“an assurance of help when needed”
“signed a pledge never to reveal the secret”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pledge come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.