commitment
English
noun
Definitions
- The act or an instance of committing, putting in charge, keeping, or trust, especially:
- Promise or agreement to do something in the future, especially:
- Being bound emotionally or intellectually to a course of action or to another person or persons.
- The trait of sincerity and focused purpose.
- Perpetration as in a crime or mistake.
- State of being pledged or engaged.
- The act of being lock locked away, such as in an institution for the mentally ill or in jail.
Etymology
Suffix from English commit.
Origin
English
commit
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- autocommit English
- commit English
- commitment-phobe English
- commitment-phobic English
- commitmentless English
- commitmentphobia English
- commitmentphobic English
- committable English
- committal English
- committee English
- committer English
- committest English
- committeth English
- committible English
- decommit English
- noncommitment English
- overcommit English
- overcommitment English
- precommit English
- precommitment English
- recommit English
- uncommit English
- undercommit English
- kommitoida Finnish
- kommitti Finnish
- committere Latin
- コミット Japanese
- komitmen Indonesian