Definition Definition

commit - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'commit' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Commit [ v. i.]
- To sin; esp., to be incontinent.
2 . Commit [ v. t.]
- To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
- To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
- To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
- To join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with.
- To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course.
- To confound.

Meaning of 'commit' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . commit [ v]
Meaning (1):
- cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution
Example in sentence:
  • After the second episode, she had to be committed;
  • he was committed to prison
Meaning (2):
- engage in or perform
Example in sentence:
  • commit a random act of kindness;
  • practice safe sex
Meaning (3):
- give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause
Example in sentence:
  • consecrate your life to the church;
  • give one's talents to a good cause;
  • She committed herself to the work of God
Meaning (4):
- confer a trust upon
Example in sentence:
  • I commit my soul to God;
  • The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret
Meaning (5):
- perform an act, usually with a negative connotation
Example in sentence:
  • perpetrate a crime;
  • pull a bank robbery
Meaning (6):
- make an investment
Example in sentence:
  • Put money into bonds

Nearby Words:

com- coma comanches comart comate comatose comatous comatula comatulid comb

See 'commit' also in:

Dictionary.com Google Translator Wikipedia.com Merriam Webster

Related Definitions

  • Steering Committee
    A Steering Committee is a type of special committee made up of Senior Executives which helps to steer the project...
  • AIMR Performance Presentation Standards Implementation Committee
    AIMR Performance Presentation Standards Implementation Committee is the Association for Investment Management and Research (AIMR) Performance Presentation Standards Implementation Committee is charged with the responsibility to interpret, revise, and update the AIMR Performance Presentation Standards (AIMR-PPS(TM) for portfolio
  • 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.
  • Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC)
    Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is the committee that makes decisions regarding the conduct of open market operations;
  • Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
    Basel Committee on Banking Supervision is an international committee of bank supervisors that meets under the auspices of the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland.

Categories

Browse Dictionary