pledgee vs actor

pledgee and actor both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
pledgee	Yes	No	No	No
actor	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, actor is a hypernym of pledgee; that is, actor is a word with a broader meaning than pledgee:

pledgee: someone to whom a pledge is made or someone with whom something is deposited as a pledge
actor: a person who acts and gets things done

Other hypernyms of pledgee include doer, worker.

pledgee (noun)	actor (noun)
someone to whom a pledge is made or someone with whom something is deposited as a pledge	a theatrical performer
	a person who acts and gets things done