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put in pledge

put in pledge verb: to pawn; to give as a guarantee.

Verb

put in pledge (third-person singular simple present puts in pledge, present participle putting in pledge, simple past and past participle put in pledge)

  1. (dated, idiomatic, transitive) To pawn; to give as a guarantee.
    • the land, which is so put in pledge, is by law, in case of non-payment at the time limited, forever dead and gone from the mortgagor;1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC

Forms of put in pledge

third-person singular presentputs in pledge
present participleputting in pledge
past participleput in pledge
pastput in pledge

Questions about put in pledge

What does put in pledge mean?
Put in pledge means to pawn; to give as a guarantee.
What part of speech is put in pledge?
Put in pledge is a verb.
What is the past tense of put in pledge?
The past tense of put in pledge is put in pledge.

Words near put in pledge in the dictionary

  1. put in an appearance
  2. put in an oar
  3. put in mind
  4. put in motion
  5. put in one's oar
  6. put in pledge
  7. put in practice
  8. put in the ground
  9. put in the pin
  10. put in the shade
  11. put in the work

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