About The Word Commitment
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Commitment
| Commitment Definition And Meaning |
What's The Definition Of Commitment?
[n] the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital)
[n] the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action; "his long commitment to public service"; "they felt no loyalty to a losing team"
[n] an engagement by contract involving financial obligation; "his business commitments took him to London"
[n] the trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose; "a man of energy and commitment"
[n] a message that makes a pledge
Synonyms | Synonyms for Commitment: allegiance |
committal |
committedness |
consignment |
dedication |
dedication |
loyalty
Related Terms | Find terms related to Commitment: 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 |
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 |
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 |
selflessness |
self-neglect |
self-neglectfulness |
self-renouncement |
self-sacrifice |
self-subjection |
self-will |
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 |
will |
work |
zeal
See Also | affirmation |
assurance |
communalism |
confinement |
consecration |
content |
cooperation |
devotion |
earnestness |
engagement |
faith |
incurrence |
involvement |
message |
oath |
participation |
pledge |
promise |
serious-mindedness |
seriousness |
sincerity |
subject matter |
substance |
swearing
Commitment In Webster's Dictionary
\Com*mit"ment\, n.
1. The act of committing, or putting in charge, keeping, or
trust; consignment; esp., the act of committing to prison.
They were glad to compound for his bare commitment
to the Tower, whence he was within few days
enlarged. --Clarendon.
2. A warrant or order for the imprisonment of a person; --
more frequently termed a mittimus.
3. The act of referring or intrusting to a committee for
consideration and report; as, the commitment of a petition
or a bill.
4. A doing, or perpetration, in a bad sense, as of a crime or
blunder; commission.
5. The act of pledging or engaging; the act of exposing,
endangering, or compromising; also, the state of being
pledged or engaged. --Hamilton.
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