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PLEDGEE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pledgee mean?
• PLEDGEE (noun)
The noun PLEDGEE has 1 sense:
1. someone to whom a pledge is made or someone with whom something is deposited as a pledge
Familiarity information: PLEDGEE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone to whom a pledge is made or someone with whom something is deposited as a pledge
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("pledgee" is a kind of...):
adult; grownup (a fully developed person from maturity onward)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pledgee"):
pawnbroker (a person who lends money at interest in exchange for personal property that is deposited as security)
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