Synonyms for pledge
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Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

1. pledge(noun)

   a deposit of personal property as security for a debt

   "his saxophone was in pledge"

   Synonyms:
   toast, assurance

2. pledge(noun)

   someone accepted for membership but not yet fully admitted to the group

   Synonyms:
   toast, assurance

3. pledge, toast(noun)

   a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event

   Synonyms:
   goner, toast, assurance

4. assurance, pledge(verb)

   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"

   Synonyms:
   confidence, self-assurance, self-confidence, authority, assurance, sureness, toast

5. pledge, plight(verb)

   promise solemnly and formally

   "I pledge that I will honor my wife"

   Synonyms:
   plight, betroth, engage, wassail, drink, salute, affiance, subscribe, toast

6. pledge, subscribe(verb)

   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"

   Synonyms:
   plight, sign, wassail, drink, salute, support, subscribe, take, subscribe to, toast

7. toast, drink, pledge, salute, wassail(verb)

   propose a toast to

   "Let us toast the birthday girl!"; "Let's drink to the New Year"

   Synonyms:
   toast, fuddle, jollify, salute, booze, whoop it up, crisp, wassail, present, tope, subscribe, make merry, crispen, drink, drink in, make whoopie, imbibe, make happy, racket, plight, revel

8. pledge(verb)

   give as a guarantee

   "I pledge my honor"

   Synonyms:
   subscribe, plight, toast, wassail, salute, drink

9. pledge(verb)

   bind or secure by a pledge

   "I was pledged to silence"

   Synonyms:
   subscribe, plight, toast, wassail, salute, drink

Wiktionary(3.00 / 2 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. pledge(noun)

   Synonyms:
   promise, commitment

2. pledge(noun)

   To make a solemn promise (to do something).

   Synonyms:
   commitment, promise

3. pledge(noun)

   To deposit something as a security; to pawn.

   Synonyms:
   commitment, promise

4. pledge(noun)

   A security to guarantee payment of a debt.

   Synonyms:
   promise, commitment

5. pledge(noun)

   A drinking toast.

   Synonyms:
   commitment, promise

6. pledge(noun)

   (the pledge): A promise to abstain from drinking alcohol.

   Synonyms:
   commitment, promise

English Synonyms and Antonyms(1.75 / 4 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. pledge

   All these words involve at least two parties, tho an engagement or promise may be the act of but one. A contract is a formal agreement between two or more parties for the doing or leaving undone some specified act or acts, and is ordinarily in writing. Mutual promises may have the force of a contract. A consideration, or compensation, is essential to convert an agreement into a contract. A contract may be oral or written. A covenant in law is a written contract under seal. Covenant is frequent in religious usage, as contract is in law and business. Compact is essentially the same as contract, but is applied to international agreements, treaties, etc. A bargain is a mutual agreement for an exchange of values, without the formality of a contract. A stipulation is a single item in an agreement or contract. A cartel is a military agreement for the exchange of prisoners or the like.

   Synonyms:
   agreement, arrangement, bargain, cartel, compact, contract, covenant, engagement, obligation, pact, promise, stipulation

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms(2.75 / 4 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. pledge(n)

   Synonyms:
   security, guarantee, warrant, hostage, surety, pawn, earnest

   Antonyms:
   word, promise, assurance, parole

2. pledge(v)

   Synonyms:
   pawn, hypothecate

   Antonyms:
   redeem

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. pledge(n.)

   Synonyms:
   pawn, gage, deposit

2. pledge(n.)

   Synonyms:
   guarantee, security, earnest

3. pledge(n.)

   Synonyms:
   health (in drinking)

4. pledge(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   pawn, impawn, plight, hypothecate, put in pledge, deposit as security

5. pledge(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   engage, commit

6. pledge(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   toast, drink to, drink the health of, drink in honor of

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. pledge(n)

   Synonyms:
   gage, security, hostage, guarantee

2. pledge(v)

   Synonyms:
   pawn, impawn, hypothecate, plight

PPDB, the paraphrase database(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these paraphrases:

1. List of paraphrases for "pledge":

   promise, commitment, probie, gage, newbie, undertaking, vow, pledging, vowed, oath, pledged, pledges, promises, commitments, collateral, engagement

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1. Boris Johnson:

   We cannot just sit back and watch as priceless endangered species are wiped off the face of the earth by our own carelessness and criminality, we are ramping up UK efforts with a new action plan to save the natural world. And I'd like to see leaders in New York this week pledge to do the same.

2. But Trump:

   The RNC better get its act together, i signed a pledge. But the pledge isn’t being honored by them.

3. Micah Brienen:

   If we don’t make a stand now – we might not have the Pledge of Allegiance in school, what’s next, removing the flags? It’s only the beginning.

4. Ted Cruz:

   That pledge was not a blanket commitment that if you go and slander and attack [ my wife ], that I'm going to nonetheless come like a servile puppy dog and say thank you very much for maligning my wife and maligning my father.

5. Donald Duncan:

   In 1997 we were the fastest growing manufacturing metro area in the country and four years later it collapsed, what you can see on the ground today is 3,000 job openings. China's emergence as the world's low-cost producer and export superpower following its World Trade Organization entry in 2001 dealt a heavy blow to traditional industrial communities such as Hickory. Economists David Autor, David Dorn and Gordon Hanson have tried to separate the impact of trade from other factors affecting U.S. manufacturing employment and they estimate that between 1990 and 2007 Hickory lost 16 percent of its manufacturing jobs just due to surging imports from China. DEEP SCARS. Buffeted by other headwinds, such as the 1994 North American Free Trade agreement and the lifting of textile quotas in 2004, the area lost 40,000 manufacturing jobs overall, half the total, between 2000 and 2009. Nationally, more than 5 million manufacturing jobs have disappeared since 2000, a period that also included the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. The collapse left deep and still visible scars that help explain the appeal of Trump's pledge to bring back manufacturing's glory days. In Hickory, disability rolls soared more than 50 percent between 2000 and 2014, swollen by older workers who struggled to return to the workforce. At the same time, the share of the 25-34 year old in the population fell by almost a fifth between 2000 and 2010. Consequently, even as the unemployment rate tumbled from a peak above 15 percent in 2010 to 4.6 percent today, below the national average, so did the labor force participation rate. It fell from above 68 percent in 2000 to below 59 percent in 2014. Poverty levels doubled. Yet the manufacturing upswing in areas that suffered the most during the downturn is evident. Rust belt states, such as Michigan, Indiana and Ohio that may prove pivotal in the Nov. 8 presidential election, have been adding manufacturing jobs faster than the economy as a whole. Michigan, for example, which lost nearly half of its manufacturing jobs between 2000 and 2009, has since then seen a 25 percent rise, well above the 4 percent gain nationally. Manufacturing employment there is still well below the levels in the 1990s. Economists debate whether returning to that level is realistic given technological advances that have reduced manufacturing's share of the workforce from a high of above 30 percent in the 1950s to around 8 percent today. But they also feel that have already seen the bottom, particularly when it comes to China's impact.

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