pledge
C1UK /pledʒ/US /pledʒ/
Meaning
noun
a serious promise
“pledge (of something), a pledge of support”
verb
to formally promise to give or do something
“pledge something, Japan has pledged $100 million in humanitarian aid.”
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“I could not believe I had pledged allegiance to research, where our job -- you know, the definition of research is to control and predict, to study phenomena for the explicit reason”
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