commitment
English
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: com‧mit‧ment
Noun
commitment (countable and uncountable, plural commitments)
- The act or an instance of committing, putting in charge, keeping, or trust, especially:
- The act of sending a legislative bill to committee for review.
- Official consignment sending a person to prison or a mental health institution.
- Promise or agreement to do something in the future, especially:
- Act of assuming a financial obligation at a future date.
- Being bound emotionally or intellectually to a course of action or to another person or persons.
- The trait of sincerity and focused purpose.
- Perpetration, in a negative manner, as in a crime or mistake.
- State of being pledged or engaged.
- The act of being locked away, such as in an institution for the mentally ill or in jail.
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Translations
act or instance of committing, putting in charge, keeping, or trust
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act of sending a legislative bill to committee for review
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official consignment sending a person to prison or a mental health institution
promise or agreement to do something in the future
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act of assuming a financial obligation
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being bound emotionally/intellectually
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perpetration, as in crime or a mistake
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state of being pledged or engaged
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trait of sincerity and focused purpose
act of being locked away
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Further reading
- commitment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- commitment in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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