(n.) 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.
(n.) A person who undertook, or became responsible, for another; a bail; a surety; a hostage.
(n.) A hypothecation without transfer of possession.
(n.) Anything given or considered as a security for the performance of an act; a guarantee; as, mutual interest is the best pledge for the performance of treaties.
(n.) A promise or agreement by which one binds one's self to do, or to refrain from doing, something; especially, a solemn promise in writing to refrain from using intoxicating liquors or the like; as, to sign the pledge; the mayor had made no pledges.
(n.) A sentiment to which assent is given by drinking one's health; a toast; a health.
(n.) To deposit, as a chattel, in pledge or pawn; to leave in possession of another as security; as, to pledge one's watch.
(n.) To give or pass as a security; to guarantee; to engage; to plight; as, to pledge one's word and honor.
(n.) To secure performance of, as by a pledge.
(n.) To bind or engage by promise or declaration; to engage solemnly; as, to pledge one's self.
(n.) To invite another to drink, by drinking of the cup first, and then handing it to him, as a pledge of good will; hence, to drink the health of; to toast.
Example Sentences:
(1) She was clearly elected on a pledge not to cut school funding and that’s exactly what is happening,” Corbyn said.
(2) The green fund contributions already announced (which include a $3bn pledge by the US and a $1.5bn pledge by Japan revealed during the G20 summit) “show very clearly that if we want the emerging countries and the more fragile countries to participate in this global growth, we have to ... support them,” Hollande said.
(3) Federal judges who blocked the bans cited harsh rhetoric employed by Trump on the campaign trail , specifically a pledge to ban all Muslims from entering the US and support for giving priority to Christian refugees, as being reflective of the intent behind his travel ban.
(4) Under pressure from many backbenchers, he has tightened planning controls on windfarms and pledged to "roll back" green subsidies on bills, leading to fears of dwindling support for the renewables industry.
(5) It also pledged support to a veterans’ group that rejected a request by a gay, lesbian and bisexual group to march in the St Patrick’s Day parade in Boston.
(6) We simply do whatever nature needs and will work with anyone that wants to help wildlife.” His views might come as a surprise to some of the RSPB’s 1.1 million members, who would have been persuaded by its original pledge “to discourage the wanton destruction of birds”; they would equally have been a surprise to the RSPB’s detractors in the shooting world.
(7) We are prepared to be honest with people and say that we will all need to chip in a little more.” The party’s health spokesman, Norman Lamb, said: “The NHS was once the envy of the world and this pledge is the first step in restoring it to where it should be.
(8) Royal Mail has pledged not to give Greene a large pay rise until after the current financial year, but the government's move follows Royal Mail chairman Donald Brydon telling the Daily Telegraph this week that Greene was the "lowest-paid chief executive in the FTSE 100" and that a rise in her pay was necessary to keep her.
(9) Well one of the things we have in common is we produce a lot of carbon … which means we’ve got to step up.” In the backrooms of the G20 meeting, Australia was continuing to resist language in the official communique encouraging countries to make pledges to the Green Climate Fund , but to a rousing reception at a local university, Obama announced the $3bn US commitment.
(10) Tim Farron has pledged to fight the next general election on a platform of taking the UK back into Europe .
(11) And when you said the pledge of allegiance in the morning, you had to look at those flags.
(12) But Sainsbury attacked government attempts to secure further pledges as a "total waste of time" given Pfizer's record of breaking promises in past takeovers.
(13) In a telling moment, 17 editors of both state and private newspapers collectively pledged in November to avoid criticising the state.
(14) Fenway, which also owns the Boston Red Sox baseball team, bought Liverpool for £300m in 2010 and pledged to return the club to the top of English football, following what was then a 20-year gap since the club last won the top flight.
(15) China INDC This would be “a key” to success of the UN climate talks, a French diplomatic official said, because the current national pledges won’t be enough to achieve the goal of keeping the rise in global temperatures below 2C between pre-industrial times and the end of the century.
(16) Climate change is also high on protesters’ and politicians’ agendas, and the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, called for the industrial powers to throw their weight behind a longstanding pledge to seek $100bn (£65bn) to help poor countries tackle climate change, agreed in Copenhagen in 2009.
(17) The party has also pledged to ensure that the wealthy make a greater contribution by restoring the 50p higher rate of income tax.
(18) Abbott's comments on Wednesday morning followed a pledge from Yudhoyono on Tuesday night to restore normal bilateral relations if Australia signed up to a new code of ethics on intelligence sharing.
(19) The media mogul said he had spoken "very carefully under oath" at the Leveson inquiry on Wednesday, when he had said that Brown had pledged to "declare war" on his company in a phone call made at around the time the Sun came out in support of the Conservative party, on 30 September of that year.
(20) "He has pledged to push for devolution of power to the north and east, and has said that the solution to the national question must have the agreement of all parties."
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Definition:
(v. t.) To write underneath, as one's name; to sign (one's name) to a document.
(v. t.) To sign with one's own hand; to give consent to, as something written, or to bind one's self to the terms of, by writing one's name beneath; as, parties subscribe a covenant or contract; a man subscribes a bond.
(v. t.) To attest by writing one's name beneath; as, officers subscribe their official acts, and secretaries and clerks subscribe copies or records.
(v. t.) To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount; as, each man subscribed ten dollars.
(v. t.) To sign away; to yield; to surrender.
(v. t.) To declare over one's signature; to publish.
(v. i.) To sign one's name to a letter or other document.
(v. i.) To give consent to something written, by signing one's name; hence, to assent; to agree.
(v. i.) To become surely; -- with for.
(v. i.) To yield; to admit one's self to be inferior or in the wrong.
(v. i.) To set one's name to a paper in token of promise to give a certain sum.
(v. i.) To enter one's name for a newspaper, a book, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Subscribers to the paper's print and digital editions also now contribute to half the volume of its total sales.
(2) The interplay of policies and principles to which Miss Nightingale subscribed, the human frailty of one of her women, Miss Nightingale's illness, and the confusion and stress which characterized the Crimean War are discussed.
(3) The huge new TV money first arrived in 1992 after Rupert Murdoch’s executives realised that only football could bring the battalions of addicted subscribers they needed to grow Sky TV.
(4) The promise of exclusive photos and an "official chatroom" doesn't exactly set our world alight – but White is also promising subscribers four 7" records, four 12" records and four new T-shirts a year.
(5) "This is a real problem for Setanta, they are not going to have a critical mass of matches to persuade people to subscribe," said one city analyst.
(6) The company said it has spent £172m on what it terms subscriber acquisition costs and marketing in the year to the end of March, a £20m increase over the previous year.
(7) Movie and TV service Netflix announced Monday that it would raise prices for new subscribers and use the new funds to buy more content.
(8) I subscribe to the view that Britain should remain a nuclear power and that our deterrent should continue to be submarine based.
(9) Ethical standards are a set of affirmative responsibilities to which the investigator must subscribe; behavior that is incompatible with these responsibilities should be presumed unethical, whether or not it is explicitly proscribed.
(10) Under the draft proposals, internet service providers with more than 400,000 subscribers will start collecting the details of customers suspected of sharing copyrighted content next year, in order to send them warning letters.
(11) TL 7 CHEWING SAND HAZEL HAYES Stats 25,000 subscribers, 800,000 views Who is she?
(12) The company has leapt from 24 million active users and 6 million paying subscribers in March last year and is the world’s biggest music subscription service.
(13) If only 5% of those 40 million subscribe to the Daily , that's already two million customers."
(14) Eighty-four percent of the discrete citations retrieved were from 664 periodicals subscribed to by both services.
(15) The company effectively put itself up for sale in August amid a heavy losses from its failed PlayBook tablet and a decline in its handset business and subscriber numbers and revenues.
(16) The service will be offered at no extra cost to subscribers who have already signed up for Sky+HD, although customers will need a broadband connection.
(17) The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said at Smith's tribunal that it believed some of the information held by the covert organisation and accessible to companies that subscribed to the service "could only have been supplied by the police or the security services".
(18) The marketing slogan was: “There are 1,000 reasons not to believe in independent television, but just 1,000 roubles will get it for you.” Now, the price has gone up, to 4,800 roubles per year, and the channel has around 60,000 subscribers, with Muscovites making up nearly 40% of that number.
(19) He had always subscribed to the pacifist principles at the heart of Plaid Cymru's philosophy.
(20) HelloFresh sends 4m meals each month to its subscribers in the UK, US, Australia and parts of Europe.