pledge
A2CEFR level
20/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
The delivery of an asset to a creditor as security for a debt, with ownership remaining with the debtor.
The founder gave a pledge over his shares to secure the acquisition loan.
Business verb
To give an asset to a lender as security for a debt while retaining ownership.
She pledged her share portfolio to secure the margin loan.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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