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commitment - definition and meaning
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Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or an instance of committing, especially.
- noun The act of referring a legislative bill to committee.
- noun Official consignment, as to a prison or mental health facility.
- noun A court order authorizing consignment to a prison.
- noun A pledge or obligation, as to follow a certain course of action.
- noun Something pledged, especially an engagement by contract involving financial obligation.
- noun The state of being emotionally or intellectually devoted, as to a belief, a course of action, or another person.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of committing.
- noun A written order of a court directing that some one be confined in prison: formerly more often termed a mittimus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of committing, or putting in charge, keeping, or trust; consignment; esp., the act of committing to prison.
- noun A warrant or order for the imprisonment of a person; -- more frequently termed a
mittimus . - noun The act of referring or intrusting to a committee for consideration and report.
- noun A doing, or perpetration, in a bad sense, as of a crime or blunder; commission.
- noun The act of pledging or engaging; the act of exposing, endangering, or compromising; also, the state of being pledged or engaged.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act or an instance of committing, putting in charge, keeping, or trust, especially:
- noun The act of sending a
legislative bill to committee for review. - noun Official
consignment sending a person to prison or a mental health institution - noun Promise or agreement to do something in the future, especially:
- noun Act of assuming a financial
obligation at a future date - noun Being bound emotionally/intellectually to a course of action or to another person/other persons.
- noun
Perpetration , in a negative manner, as in a crime or mistake. - noun State of being
pledged orengaged . - noun The
trait ofsincerity and focused purpose. - noun The act of being locked away, such as in an institution for the mentally ill or jail.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action
- noun a message that makes a pledge
- noun an engagement by contract involving financial obligation
- noun the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital)
- noun the trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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David Cameron has reiterated his commitment to the arts, and indeed Samantha Cameron's commitment, which shouldn't be underestimated as an influence on David. "
The Guardian World News Charlotte Higgins 2010
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David Cameron has reiterated his commitment to the arts, and indeed Samantha Cameron's commitment, which shouldn't be underestimated as an influence on David. "
The Guardian World News Charlotte Higgins 2010
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I like the word commitment better than resolution because it is a word I am already committed to.
Loren Ridinger: New Year's Resolutions: Can You Make Them Stick? Loren Ridinger 2011
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I like the word commitment better than resolution because it is a word I am already committed to.
Loren Ridinger: New Year's Resolutions: Can You Make Them Stick? Loren Ridinger 2011
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I like the word commitment better than resolution because it is a word I am already committed to.
Loren Ridinger: New Year's Resolutions: Can You Make Them Stick? Loren Ridinger 2011
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I like the word commitment better than resolution because it is a word I am already committed to.
Loren Ridinger: New Year's Resolutions: Can You Make Them Stick? Loren Ridinger 2011
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I like the word commitment better than resolution because it is a word I am already committed to.
Loren Ridinger: New Year's Resolutions: Can You Make Them Stick? Loren Ridinger 2011
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The Wisconsin commitment is the fastest of all the nation's top linebackers.
USATODAY.com - Big year for defensive linemen on recruiting trail 2005
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Finally, after a frustrating on-again, off-again commitment from the San Francisco Giants and the National League, and armed with a powerful partnership that included R. Howard Webster and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Labatt's landed an American League expansion franchise.
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And somewhere in Alaska Sarah Palin is wondering what the word commitment means...
News - latimes.com 2011
Related Words
synonyms (204)
Words with the same meaning
- abandon
- activity
- affair
- agency
- agentship
- agreement
- allegiance
- altruism
- ardency
- ardor
- assigned task
- assignment
- attempt
- authority
- authorization
- bounden duty
- brevet
- burden
- business
- call of duty
- campaign
- care
- cause
- charge
- commendation
- commission
- commissioning
- committal
- committedness
- condemnation
- consecration
- consignment
- constancy
- contract
- crusade
- cure
- deal
- decidedness
- decision
- decisiveness
- dedication
- deference
- definiteness
- delegated authority
- delegation
- deputation
- determinateness
- determination
- determinedness
- devoir
- devolution
- devolvement
- devotedness
- devotion
- devoutness
- disinterest
- disinterestedness
- drive
- duties and responsibilities
- duty
- earnestness
- effort
- embassy
- empowerment
- enfeoffment
- engagement
- enterprise
- entrusting
- entrustment
- errand
- ethics
- executorship
- exequatur
- factorship
- faith
- faithfulness
- fastness
- fealty
- fervency
- fervidness
- fervor
- fidelity
- fire
- firmness
- full power
- great cause
- hallowing
- heartiness
- heat
- heatedness
- homage
- humility
- impassionedness
- imperative
- infeodation
- infeudation
- intensity
- intentness
- interest
- issue
- jurisdiction
- legation
- license
- lieutenancy
- lifework
- line of duty
- loyalty
- mandate
- mass movement
- mission
- mittimus
- modesty
- movement
- must
- need
- obligation
- obstinacy
- office
- onus
- operation
- ordainment
- ordination
- ought
- passion
- passionateness
- perseverance
- persistence
- place
- plan
- plenipotentiary power
- power of attorney
- power to act
- preengagement
- principle
- procuration
- program
- project
- proposition
- proxy
- purpose
- purposefulness
- purview
- reason for being
- recognizance
- recommitment
- reduction
- regency
- regentship
- relegation
- relentlessness
- remand
- remanding
- resoluteness
- resolution
- resolve
- resolvedness
- respect
- responsibility
- right
- sacrifice
- self-abasement
- self-abnegation
- self-denial
- self-devotion
- self-effacement
- self-forgetfulness
- self-immolation
- self-imposed duty
- self-neglect
- self-neglectfulness
- self-renouncement
- self-sacrifice
- self-subjection
- self-will
- selflessness
- seriousness
- sincerity
- single-mindedness
- spirit
- staunchness
- steadfastness
- task
- tenacity
- total commitment
- tried-and-trueness
- triedness
- trueness
- trust
- trusteeship
- unacquisitiveness
- understanding
- undertaking
- unpossessiveness
- unselfishness
- vehemence
- venture
- verbal agreement
- vicarious authority
- warmth
- warrant
- warranty
- will
- work
- zeal
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