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/kəˈmɪtmənt/
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[ UK /kəmˈɪtmənt/ ]
[ UK /kəmˈɪtmənt/ ]
NOUN
- the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital)
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the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action
they felt no loyalty to a losing team
his long commitment to public service -
an engagement by contract involving financial obligation
his business commitments took him to London - a message that makes a pledge
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the trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose
a man of energy and commitment
How To Use commitment In A Sentence
- Or is the idea of foreign policy beyondmilitary commitmentsso far off the radar that when the polls open, everything will hinge on the pitch-and-toss of national concerns? And Now, The Choice « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows
- Also, it is difficult to get across diagrammatically the iterative nature of grounded theory - in particular its commitment to the idea that data collection and analysis occur in parallel.
- To explicate this relation, Searle and Vanderveken define weak illocutionary commitment: S1 weakly illocutionarily implies S2 iff every performance of S1 commits an agent to meeting the conditions laid down in the septuple identical to S2 (1985, p. 24). Saving Prostitutes in Sevilla
- To believe that Obama is a socialist merely assumes his continued commitment to a world he has long described as his lodestar. Radical-In-Chief
- That also means a commitment to private residential care as much as to local authority residential care.
- Uzbekistan reaffirms its commitment to implement democratic reforms.
- Mobile Internet services are part of this commitment and are forecast to play an important role in the future of mobile multimedia.
- “Part of an adult faith, for example, is a commitment to the inviolability of human life from its first moment, radically opposing the principle of violence, precisely in the defense of the most defenseless of human creatures,” the pope said. Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog:
- You tell us that you prize love, fidelity and commitment. Times, Sunday Times
- This bill is a good step in the Government's commitment towards greater energy efficiency and a sustainable energy future, and I look forward to its passage through the House.
