pledge
to promise something
TRANSLATION
the pledge = das Versprechen; das Versprechenzusichern; das Gelöbnis; das Pfand; der Pfandgegenstand; die Verpfändung to pledge = versprechen; geloben; sich zur Bereitstellung von etw. verpflichten; verpfänden election pledge = das Wahlversprechen holder of a pledge = der Pfandhalter pledge of chattels = Verpfändung beweglicher Sachen pledge of secrecy = Siegel der Verschwiegenheit pledge of securities [finan.] = Verpfändung von Wertpapieren New Year's pledge = guter Vorsatz für das neue Jahr as a pledge of friendship = als Pfand der Freundschaft to take the pledge = dem Alkohol entsagen
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Warren Buffett, among the most successful investors in corporate history, PLEDGED most of his fortune to the Buffett Foundation (an organization devoted to world population control), forsaking his children. (Buffett, who lived in the same five-bedroom Omaha home which he bought for $31,500 in 1958, once refused his daughter's request for a $30,000 loan to renovate her kitchen.) Among his few extravagances was a Gulfstream IV-SP corporate jet (in which Buffett once remarked that he wished to be buried). Buffett's name for the jet? The Indefensible.
Buffett, Warren (1930- ) American investor, founder of Berkshire Hathaway
Buffett, Warren (1930- ) American investor, founder of Berkshire Hathaway
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pledge
noun.
1. A solemn binding promise to do, give, or refrain from doing something: "a signed a pledge never to reveal the secret", "a pledge of money to a charity."
2. Something given or held as security to guarantee payment of a debt or fulfillment of an obligation.
3. Law.
a. Delivery of goods or personal property as security for a debt or obligation: "a loan requiring a pledge of property."
b. The contract by which such delivery is made.
4. A promise to abstain from alcoholic liquor: "ex-drinkers who have taken the pledge."
verb transitive. pledged, pledg·ing, pledg·es
1. To offer or guarantee by a solemn binding promise: "pledge loyalty to a nation."
2. To bind or secure by or as if by a pledge: pledged themselves to the cause.
3. To deposit as security; pawn.
verb. intransitive
1.To make a solemn binding promise; swear.
2.To drink a toast.
From Middle English, from Old French plege, probably from Late Latin plevium, a security, of Germanic origin.
(adapted from: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
noun.
1. A solemn binding promise to do, give, or refrain from doing something: "a signed a pledge never to reveal the secret", "a pledge of money to a charity."
2. Something given or held as security to guarantee payment of a debt or fulfillment of an obligation.
3. Law.
a. Delivery of goods or personal property as security for a debt or obligation: "a loan requiring a pledge of property."
b. The contract by which such delivery is made.
4. A promise to abstain from alcoholic liquor: "ex-drinkers who have taken the pledge."
verb transitive. pledged, pledg·ing, pledg·es
1. To offer or guarantee by a solemn binding promise: "pledge loyalty to a nation."
2. To bind or secure by or as if by a pledge: pledged themselves to the cause.
3. To deposit as security; pawn.
verb. intransitive
1.To make a solemn binding promise; swear.
2.To drink a toast.
From Middle English, from Old French plege, probably from Late Latin plevium, a security, of Germanic origin.
(adapted from: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
