Commitment

n. obligation, promise; act of committing

Commitment means to duty or pledge to some thing or someone, and can refer to:Personal commitment, interaction dominated by obligations. These obligations may be mutual, or self-imposed, or explicitly stated, or may not. Distinction is often made between commitment as a member of an organisation (such as a sporting team, a religion, or as an employee). A personal commitment is a pledge or promise to ones' self for personal growth.Brand commitment refers to the strength of the relationship between consumers (or customers) and a particular brand (or service).Involuntary commitment, the practice of using legal means or forms to commit a person to a mental hospital, insane asylum or psychiatric ward against the will or over the protests of that person.Ontological commitment, belief in an ontology in philosophyCommitment (Computer Science) - the concept of commitment is studied in several branches of Computer Science around the notion of something pledged.Physical commitment is information pledged about physical systems (that are situated at a particular place and time). Social commitment, in a multi-agent system a directed obligation from one agent to another about to being about a certain state of affairs or to perform certain actionsOrganizational commitment can mean something pledged by an organization as opposed to its membersCommitment scheme, in cryptographyCommit (data management), to make changes permanent in data management. For example, COMMIT is a statement in SQL. The opposite is to rollback (data management).Kingsbury Commitment, the beginning of AT&T's monopoly in the telephone industryClimate commitment studiesCommitment, the second major-label album from the band Lucky Boys ConfusionCommitment, or 約定, an album by a Malaysian Taiwanese singer Guang Liang."Commitment," a song by LeAnn Rimes on her album entitled Sittin' on Top of the World.
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Noun
1. the trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose; "a man of energy and commitment"
(synonym) committedness
(hypernym) seriousness, earnestness, serious-mindedness, sincerity
2. 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"
(synonym) allegiance, loyalty, dedication
(hypernym) cooperation
(hyponym) communalism
(derivation) give, dedicate, consecrate, commit, devote
3. an engagement by contract involving financial obligation; "his business commitments took him to London"
(hypernym) engagement, participation, involvement, involution
(hyponym) incurrence
(derivation) invest, put, commit, place
4. a message that makes a pledge
(synonym) dedication
(hypernym) message, content, subject matter, substance
(hyponym) oath, swearing
5. the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital)
(synonym) committal, consignment
(hypernym) confinement
(derivation) commit, institutionalize, institutionalise, send, charge

(n.)
The act of referring or intrusting to a committee for consideration and report; as, the commitment of a petition or a bill.
  

(n.)
The act of pledging or engaging; the act of exposing, endangering, or compromising; also, the state of being pledged or engaged.
  

(n.)
The act of committing, or putting in charge, keeping, or trust; consignment; esp., the act of committing to prison.
  

(n.)
A warrant or order for the imprisonment of a person; -- more frequently termed a mittimus.
  

(n.)
A doing, or perpetration, in a bad sense, as of a crime or blunder; commission.