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Definition of COMMITMENT

Commitment
Commitment 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.

Meaning of COMMITMENT from wikipedia

- Look up commitment in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Commitment(s) or The Commitment(s) may refer to: Commitment (2013 film), a South Korean film directed...
- Fear of commitment, also known as gamophobia, is the irrational fear or avoidance of long-term partnership or marriage.[citation needed] The term is sometimes...
- A commitment scheme is a cryptographic primitive that allows one to commit to a chosen value (or chosen statement) while keeping it hidden to others, with...
- Involuntary commitment, civil commitment, or involuntary hospitalization/hospitalisation is a legal process through which an individual who is deemed by...
- The Commitments may refer to: The Commitments (novel), a 1987 novel by Roddy Doyle The Commitments (film), a 1991 film adaptation of the book The Commitments...
- Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT, typically pronounced as the word "act") is a form of psychotherapy, as well as a branch of clinical behavior analysis...
- In formal semantics, an ontological commitment of a language is one or more objects postulated to exist by that language. The 'existence' referred to need...
- No Commitments is a radio drama written by Simon Brett, originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and now on BBC Radio 4 Extra. It ran for 13 series, from 1992...
- Escalation of commitment is a human behavior pattern in which an individual or group facing increasingly negative outcomes from a decision, action, or...
- respect of which contract have been made. A Capital Commitment, Committed Capital or simply Commitment, is the agreed capital a General Partner can request...