Commitmentnoun
The act or an instance of committing, putting in charge, keeping, or trust, especially:
Oughtnoun
See Aught.
Commitmentnoun
The act of sending a legislative bill to committee for review.
Ought
Was or were under obligation to pay; owed.
‘This due obedience which they ought to the king.’; ‘The love and duty I long have ought you.’; ‘[He] said . . . you ought him a thousand pound.’;
Commitmentnoun
Official consignment sending a person to prison or a mental health institution.
Ought
Owned; possessed.
‘The knight the which that castle ought.’;
Commitmentnoun
Promise or agreement to do something in the future, especially:
Ought
To be bound in duty or by moral obligation.
‘We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak.’;
Commitmentnoun
Act of assuming a financial obligation at a future date.
Ought
To be necessary, fit, becoming, or expedient; to behoove; - in this sense formerly sometimes used impersonally or without a subject expressed.
‘To speak of this as it ought, would ask a volume.’; ‘Ought not Christ to have suffered these things?’;
Commitmentnoun
Being bound emotionally or intellectually to a course of action or to another person or persons.
Commitmentnoun
The trait of sincerity and focused purpose.
Commitmentnoun
Perpetration, in a negative manner, as in a crime or mistake.
Commitmentnoun
State of being pledged or engaged.
Commitmentnoun
The act of being locked away, such as in an institution for the mentally ill or in jail.
Commitmentnoun
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.’;
Commitmentnoun
A warrant or order for the imprisonment of a person; - more frequently termed a mittimus.
Commitmentnoun
The act of referring or intrusting to a committee for consideration and report; as, the commitment of a petition or a bill.
Commitmentnoun
A doing, or perpetration, in a bad sense, as of a crime or blunder; commission.
Commitmentnoun
The act of pledging or engaging; the act of exposing, endangering, or compromising; also, the state of being pledged or engaged.
Commitmentnoun
the trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose;
‘a man of energy and commitment’;
Commitmentnoun
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’;
Commitmentnoun
an engagement by contract involving financial obligation;
‘his business commitments took him to London’;
Commitmentnoun
a message that makes a pledge
Commitmentnoun
the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital)
Commitmentnoun
the state or quality of being dedicated to a cause, activity, etc.
‘the company's commitment to quality’; ‘I could not fault my players for commitment’;
Commitmentnoun
a pledge or undertaking
‘I cannot make such a commitment at the moment’;
Commitmentnoun
an engagement or obligation that restricts freedom of action
‘with so many business commitments time for recreation was limited’;
