pledgeableadj.
/ˈplɛdʒəbl/, U.S. /ˈplɛdʒəb(ə)l/ Able to be pledged or pawned.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [adjective] > relating to pawnbroking > pawned > that can be pawned
pledgeable1710
pawnablea1739
1710 J. Hodges Ess. Several Subj. 13 Making also all stores of Pledgable Goods in the Possession of those who have them as more useful, so consequently more valuable, to the Increasing Demands upon them from those who deal in them.
1774 J. Gray Ess. Establishment National Bank in Ireland 18 The law has not made it [sc. a hundred pounds of stock] pledgeable.
1865 Brit. Workman 52 I pledged my coat, I pledged my bed, I pledged in short everything that was pledgable.
1934 Pacific Affairs 7 36 His goods become unmarketable, his pledgeable properties exhausted.
1962 Canad. Jrnl. Econ. & Polit. Sci. 28 209 The rapid advance of western settlement, and the gradual conversion of homestead into pledgeable freehold, provided a relatively large demand for mortgage loans at these higher yields.
2004 Star Phoenix (Saskatoon, Sask.) (Nexis) 13 Mar. a7 I am satisfied that Mr. Murray has no pledgeable assets or means available other than the seized funds to meet his reasonable legal expenses.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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