- The act of committing, or putting in charge, keeping,
or trust; consignment; esp., the act of committing to prison. - A warrant or order for the imprisonment of a person; --
more frequently termed a mittimus. - The act of referring or intrusting to a committee for
consideration and report; as, the commitment of a petition or a bill. - A doing, or perpetration, in a bad sense, as of a crime
or blunder; commission. - The act of pledging or engaging; the act of exposing,
endangering, or compromising; also, the state of being pledged or
engaged.
Meaning of 'commitment' (Princeton's WordNet)
1 . commitment
[ n]
Meaning (1): - the trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose
Example in sentence:
a man of energy and commitment
Meaning (2): - an engagement by contract involving financial obligation
Example in sentence:
his business commitments took him to London
Meaning (3): - the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action
Advance commitment Advance commitment is a promise to sell an asset before the seller has lined up purchase of the asset. This seller can offset risk by purchasing a futures contract to fix the sales price
Unauthorized commitment Unauthorized commitment is an agreement that is not binding solely because the United States Government representative who made it lacked the ...
Decision/Commitment Decision/Commitment in Sternberg’s triangular model of love, the cognitive elements involved in the decision to form a relationship and in
Loan commitment agreements Loan commitment agreements is the promises by a bank to provide credit to a customer in the future, provided certain conditions are met.
Equity commitment notes Equity commitment notes is the type of bank capital in the form of debt securities that is repayable only from the future sale of bank stock.
Loan commitment Loan commitment means a bank’s commitment (for a specified future period of time) to provide a firm with loans up to a given amount at an interest rate that is tied to some market interest rate.
Commitment fee Commitment fee is a fee charged by a bank in respect of an unused balance of a line of credit or sanction of loan designed to offset the
Organizational commitment Organizational commitment is the degree to which an employee identifies with a particular organization and its goals and wishes to
Commitment concept A concept which says that plans should extend far enough to meet the commitments made when the plans were developed, these type of concept are called commitment concept.
Escalation of commitment Managers decision making is also likely influenced by the organization’s culture, internal politics, power considerations, and a