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Definition of "pledger" [pledg•er]

  • One who makes or gives a pledge. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "pledger" in a sentence
  • "Young describes how they turned one would-be pledger away because they wanted to give half their 10% to animal charities."
  • "The box of pawn tickets at his elbow had just been rifled and he took up idly one after another in his greasy fingers the blue and white dockets, scrawled and sanded and creased and bearing the name of the pledger as Daly or MacEvoy."
  • "The State Headquarters furnished three franked post-cards to be sent to each pledger reminding him of his pledge -- one to be sent by the County Chairman, one by the postoffice or agency, and one by the State Director."