Commitment vs. Pledge — What's the Difference?

The state or quality of being dedicated to a cause, activity, etc.

A solemn promise or undertaking

An engagement or obligation that restricts freedom of action

A thing that is given as security for the fulfilment of a contract or the payment of a debt and is liable to forfeiture in the event of failure

The act of referring a legislative bill to committee.

The drinking of a person's health; a toast.

Official consignment, as to a prison or mental health facility.

Commit (a person or organization) by a solemn promise

A court order authorizing consignment to a prison.

Give as security on a loan

A pledge or obligation, as to follow a certain course of action

Drink to the health of

Something pledged, especially an engagement by contract involving financial obligation.

A solemn binding promise to do, give, or refrain from doing something

The state of being emotionally or intellectually devoted, as to a belief, a course of action, or another person

Something given or held as security to guarantee payment of a debt or fulfillment of an obligation.

The act or an instance of committing, putting in charge, keeping, or trust, especially:

The condition of something thus given or held

The act of sending a legislative bill to committee for review.

Delivery of goods or personal property as security for a debt or obligation

Official consignment sending a person to prison or a mental health institution.

The contract or transaction stipulating or involving such delivery.

Promise or agreement to do something in the future, especially:

A token or sign

Act of assuming a financial obligation at a future date.

A person who has been accepted for membership in a fraternity or similar organization and has promised to join but has not yet been initiated.

Being bound emotionally or intellectually to a course of action or to another person or persons.

A vow to abstain from alcoholic liquor

The trait of sincerity and focused purpose.

(Archaic) The act of drinking in honor of someone; a toast.

Perpetration as in a crime or mistake.

To offer or guarantee by a solemn binding promise

State of being pledged or engaged.

To bind or secure by a pledge or promise

The act of being locked away, such as in an institution for the mentally ill or in jail.

To deposit as security; pawn.

The act of committing, or putting in charge, keeping, or trust; consignment; esp., the act of committing to prison.

To promise to join (a fraternity or similar organization).

A warrant or order for the imprisonment of a person; - more frequently termed a mittimus.

To accept as a prospective member of such an organization.

The act of referring or intrusting to a committee for consideration and report; as, the commitment of a petition or a bill.

(Archaic) To drink a toast to.

A doing, or perpetration, in a bad sense, as of a crime or blunder; commission.

To make a solemn binding promise; swear.

The act of pledging or engaging; the act of exposing, endangering, or compromising; also, the state of being pledged or engaged.

(Archaic) To drink a toast.

The trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose;

To make a solemn promise (to do something).

The act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action;

To deposit something as a security; to pawn.

An engagement by contract involving financial obligation;

(transitive) To give assurance of friendship by the act of drinking; to drink to one's health.

A message that makes a pledge

A solemn promise to do something.

The official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital)

A promise to abstain from drinking alcohol.

An asset or person temporarily handed over to guarantee the fulfilment of something promised, under threat of permanent loss of the thing handed over; surety, security, hostage.

(law) A bailment of personal property to secure payment of a debt without transfer of title.

The personal property so pledged, to be kept until the debt is paid.

(college slang) A person who has taken a pledge of allegiance to a college fraternity, but is not yet formally approved.

A drinking toast.

The transfer of possession of personal property from a debtor to a creditor as security for a debt or engagement; also, the contract created between the debtor and creditor by a thing being so delivered or deposited, forming a species of bailment; also, that which is so delivered or deposited; something put in pawn.

A person who undertook, or became responsible, for another; a bail; a surety; a hostage.

A hypothecation without transfer of possession.

Anything given or considered as a security for the performance of an act; a guarantee; as, mutual interest is the best pledge for the performance of treaties.

A promise or agreement by which one binds one's self to do, or to refrain from doing, something; especially, a solemn promise in writing to refrain from using intoxicating liquors or the like; as, to sign the pledge; the mayor had made no pledges.

A sentiment to which assent is given by drinking one's health; a toast; a health.

To deposit, as a chattel, in pledge or pawn; to leave in possession of another as security; as, to pledge one's watch.

To give or pass as a security; to guarantee; to engage; to plight; as, to pledge one's word and honor.

To secure performance of, as by a pledge.

To bind or engage by promise or declaration; to engage solemnly; as, to pledge one's self.

To invite another to drink, by drinking of the cup first, and then handing it to him, as a pledge of good will; hence, to drink the health of; to toast.

A deposit of personal property as security for a debt;

Someone accepted for membership but not yet fully admitted to the group

A drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event

A binding commitment to do or give or refrain from something;

Promise solemnly and formally;

Pay (an amount of money) as a contribution to a charity or service, especially at regular intervals;

Propose a toast to;

Give as a guarantee;

Bind or secure by a pledge;