Pledge vs. Mortgage
Pledgeverb
To make a solemn promise (to do something).
Pledgeverb
To deposit something as a security; to pawn.
Pledgeverb
(transitive) To give assurance of friendship by the act of drinking; to drink to one's health.
Pledgenoun
A solemn promise to do something.
Pledgenoun
Something given by a person who is borrowing money etc to the person he has borrowed it from, to be kept until the money etc is returned.
Pledgenoun
A person who has taken a pledge of allegiance to a college fraternity, but is not yet formally approved.
Pledgenoun
A security to guarantee payment of a debt.
Pledgenoun
A drinking toast.
Pledgenoun
}} A promise to abstain from drinking alcohol.
Pledgenoun
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.
Pledgenoun
A person who undertook, or became responsible, for another; a bail; a surety; a hostage.
Pledgenoun
A hypothecation without transfer of possession.
Pledgenoun
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.
Pledgenoun
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.
Pledgenoun
A sentiment to which assent is given by drinking one's health; a toast; a health.
Pledgeverb
To deposit, as a chattel, in pledge or pawn; to leave in possession of another as security; as, to pledge one's watch.
Pledgeverb
To give or pass as a security; to guarantee; to engage; to plight; as, to pledge one's word and honor.
Pledgeverb
To secure performance of, as by a pledge.
Pledgeverb
To bind or engage by promise or declaration; to engage solemnly; as, to pledge one's self.
Pledgeverb
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.
Pledgenoun
a deposit of personal property as security for a debt;
Pledgenoun
someone accepted for membership but not yet fully admitted to the group
Pledgenoun
a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event
Pledgenoun
a binding commitment to do or give or refrain from something;
Pledgeverb
promise solemnly and formally;
Pledgeverb
pay (an amount of money) as a contribution to a charity or service, especially at regular intervals;
Pledgeverb
propose a toast to;
Pledgeverb
give as a guarantee;
Pledgeverb
bind or secure by a pledge;
Pledgenoun
a solemn promise or undertaking
Pledgenoun
a promise of a donation to charity
Pledgenoun
a solemn undertaking to abstain from alcohol
Pledgenoun
a thing that is given as security for the fulfilment of a contract or the payment of a debt and is liable to forfeiture in the event of failure
Pledgenoun
a thing given as a token of love, favour, or loyalty
Pledgenoun
the drinking of a person's health; a toast.
Pledgeverb
commit (a person or organization) by a solemn promise
Pledgeverb
formally declare or promise that something is or will be the case
Pledgeverb
solemnly undertake to do something
Pledgeverb
undertake formally to give
Pledgeverb
give as security on a loan
Pledgeverb
drink to the health of
Mortgagenoun
(legal) A special form of secured loan where the purpose of the loan must be specified to the lender, to purchase assets that must be fixed (not movable) property, such as a house or piece of farm land. The assets are registered as the legal property of the borrower but the lender can seize them and dispose of them if they are not satisfied with the manner in which the repayment of the loan is conducted by the borrower. Once the loan is fully repaid, the lender loses this right of seizure and the assets are then deemed to be unencumbered.
Mortgagenoun
(obsolete) State of being pledged.
Mortgageverb
To borrow against a property, to obtain a loan for another purpose by giving away the right of seizure to the lender over a fixed property such as a house or piece of land; to pledge a property in order to get a loan.
Mortgageverb
To pledge and make liable; to make subject to obligation; to achieve an immediate result by paying for it in the long term.
Mortgagenoun
A conveyance of property, upon condition, as security for the payment of a debt or the preformance of a duty, and to become void upon payment or performance according to the stipulated terms; also, the written instrument by which the conveyance is made.
Mortgagenoun
State of being pledged; as, lands given in mortgage.
Mortgageverb
To grant or convey, as property, for the security of a debt, or other engagement, upon a condition that if the debt or engagement shall be discharged according to the contract, the conveyance shall be void, otherwise to become absolute, subject, however, to the right of redemption.
Mortgageverb
Hence: To pledge, either literally or figuratively; to make subject to a claim or obligation.
Mortgagenoun
a conditional conveyance of property as security for the repayment of a loan
Mortgageverb
put up as security or collateral
Mortgagenoun
a legal agreement by which a bank, building society, etc. lends money at interest in exchange for taking title of the debtor's property, with the condition that the conveyance of title becomes void upon the payment of the debt
Mortgagenoun
the amount of money borrowed in a mortgage
Mortgagenoun
a deed effecting a mortgage.
Mortgageverb
convey (a property) to a creditor as security on a loan
Mortgageverb
expose to future risk or constraint for the sake of immediate advantage
