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Pledges

A pledge is an oath. It may also refer to:

  • a toast during the act of drinking in honor of someone
  • a warrant or assurance, now used especially in fundraising for charitable purposes
  • Pledge of Allegiance, used in the United States
  • The "Teetotal Pledge" or "The Pledge", of abstinence from alcohol, taken by many Catholics in the 19th and 20th centuries, in a movement started by Theobald Mathew (temperance reformer) in Ireland in 1838.
  • Singapore National Pledge
  • Pledge or New Member, sometimes used to describe a new member of a fraternity or sorority
  • Pledge (law), a bailment of personal property as a security for a debt
  • An item to be sold to a pawnbroker
  • The Pledge, a thriller by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
  • The Pledge (film), based on the above book
  • A brand of household cleaning products, made by S. C. Johnson & Son
  • The Pledge Algorithm, for computerised Maze solving

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