commitment in English dictionary

  • commitment

    Meanings and definitions of "commitment"

    • 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:
    • Assuming a financial obligation at a future date
    • Being bound emotionally/intellectually to a course of action or to another person/other persons.
    • Perpetration, in a negative manner, as in a crime or mistake.
    • State of being pledged or engaged.
    • The trait of sincerity and focused purpose.
    • The act of being locked away, such as in an institution for the mentally ill or jail.
    • noun
      The act or an instance of committing, putting in charge, keeping, or trust, especially:
    • noun
      Promise or agreement to do something in the future, especially:
    • noun
      Being bound emotionally or intellectually to a course of action or to another person or persons.
    • noun
      The trait of sincerity and focused purpose.
    • noun
      Perpetration, in a negative manner, as in a crime or mistake.
    • noun
      State of being pledged or engaged.
    • noun
      The act of being locked away, such as in an institution for the mentally ill or in jail.
    • State of being pledged or engaged
    • Trait of sincerity and focused purpose
    • The act of being locked away
    • Act or instance of committing, putting in charge, keeping, or trust
    • Promise or agreement to do something in the future
    • Being bound emotionally/intellectually to course of action or to others
    • Perpetration, in negative manner, as in crime or mistake
    • The memory manager's current systemwide total of memory pages that have been committed to either physical memory or a page file.
    • pledge or promise
    • noun
      an engagement by contract involving financial obligation; "his business commitments took him to London"
    • noun
      a message that makes a pledge
    • noun
      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"
    • 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; "a man of energy and commitment"

    Synonyms of "commitment" in English dictionary

    substance, confinement, dedication are the top synonyms of "commitment" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of commitment

    • commitment ( plural  commitments)
    • commitment (plural commitments)
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