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say it: kuh-MIT-muhnt
commitment is a noun meaning "the trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose". It is pronounced /kəˈmɪtmənt/ — kuh-MIT-muhnt. It carries 5 recorded senses.
the trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose
“a man of energy and commitment”
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”
an engagement by contract involving financial obligation
“his business commitments took him to London”
a message that makes a pledge
the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for commitment come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.