commitment

commitment is a 10-letter English word with 10 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of committing, or putting in charge, keeping, or trust; consignment; esp., the act of committing to prison. Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 23 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 18 · Words With Friends 23 · 10 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act of committing, or putting in charge, keeping, or trust; consignment; esp., the act of committing to prison.
2. noun. A warrant or order for the imprisonment of a person; -- more frequently termed a mittimus.
3. noun. The act of referring or intrusting to a committee for consideration and report; as, the commitment of a petition or a bill.
4. noun. A doing, or perpetration, in a bad sense, as of a crime or blunder; commission.
5. noun. The act of pledging or engaging; the act of exposing, endangering, or compromising; also, the state of being pledged or engaged.
6. noun. the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital)

   Synonyms: committal, consignment

7. 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"

   Synonyms: allegiance, dedication, loyalty

8. noun. an engagement by contract involving financial obligation

   "his business commitments took him to London"

9. noun. the trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose

   "a man of energy and commitment"

   Synonyms: committedness

10. noun. a message that makes a pledge

    Synonyms: dedication

Synonyms

committal, consignment, allegiance, dedication, loyalty, committedness

Common word forms

commitments

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