Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person to whom something is pledged.
- noun A person who receives a pledge of goods or personal property as security.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The person to whom anything is pledged.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The one to whom a pledge is given, or to whom property pledged is delivered.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun someone who receives a
pledge
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone to whom a pledge is made or someone with whom something is deposited as a pledge
Etymologies
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Examples
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The point that this particular 'pledgee' endured several 'attacks' by her future 'sorors' and never reported it until after she was initiated as a member.
unknown title 2009
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In this case the pledgee is bound to use ordinary diligence in guarding the thing pledged.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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The Servian action is that by which a landlord sues for his tenant's property, over which he has a right in the nature of mortgage as security for his rent; the quasi-Servian is a similar remedy, open to every pledgee or hypothecary creditor.
The Institutes of Justinian John Baron Moyle 1891
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But beyond the pledgee and the sequester (a receiver appointed by the court) these exceptions are unimportant and disputed.
The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888
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But the law was otherwise as to a [244] pledgee, if he had kept the pledge with his own goods, and the two were stolen together.
The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888
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Tradition explains the ceremonies in this way: in the rude ancient times it was deemed a wise precaution to have both hands of both drinkers employed, lest while the pledger pledged his love and fidelity to the pledgee the pledgee take that opportunity to slip a dirk into him!
The Prince and the Pauper; a tale for young people of all ages 1882
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In the rude ancient times it was deemed a wise precaution to have both hands of both drinkers employed, lest while the pledger pledged his love and fidelity to the pledgee, the pledgee take that opportunity to slip a dirk into him!
The Prince and the Pauper, Part 9. Mark Twain 1872
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In the rude ancient times it was deemed a wise precaution to have both hands of both drinkers employed, lest while the pledger pledged his love and fidelity to the pledgee, the pledgee take that opportunity to slip a dirk into him!
The Prince and the Pauper Mark Twain 1872
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Pledged Shares may only be tendered with the consent of the relevant pledgee.
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Pledged Registered Option Rights may only be tendered with the consent of the relevant pledgee.
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