a serious or formal promise, especially one to give money or to be a friend, or something that you give as a sign that you will keep a promise:
< + to infinitive > All the candidates have given/made pledges not to raise taxes if they are elected.
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So far, $50,000 has been pledged (= people have promised to pay this amount) in response to the appeal.
pledge $32m/£100,000, etc. to/for sth EU leaders pledged $1.2 billion to the region over the next 18 months.
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pledge that sth He pledged that a reduction in the burden of taxation will become the central economic objective of the government.
to give something valuable to a person or organization that has lent you money, which they can keep if you fail to pay back the loan:
a pledge to do sth Analysts warn that OPEC”s pledge to ramp up oil production in order to ease record crude prices will not have the desired effect.
make/honour/sign a pledge Campaigners have accused Congress of failing to honour its US funding pledges.
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a pledge that sth Their goal of increasing electricity production from renewables by 40% has been reinforced by a pledge that they will not support further development of nuclear power.
something valuable that is given to a person or organization that has lent you money, which they can keep if you fail to pay back the loan:
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The producers are pledging future drilling even as they shelve near-term projects to weather a crude price slump that has extended 16 months.
He has pledged to do so again in the future to keep federal law enforcement officers from enforcing the law against him.
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