Commitment and Binding

noun

• The trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose.
  • usage: "a man of energy and commitment"
  • synonyms: committedness
• The act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action.
  • usage: "his long commitment to public service"; "they felt no loyalty to a losing team"
  • synonyms: allegiance, loyalty, dedication
• An engagement by contract involving financial obligation.
  • usage: "his business commitments took him to London"
• A message that makes a pledge.
  • synonyms: dedication
• The official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital. ).
  • synonyms: committal, consignment

• (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 committing or putting in charge, keeping or trust; consignment; especially, the act of committing to prison.
• (n.) A doing or perpetration, in a bad sense, as of a crime or blunder; commission.
• (n.) A warrant or order for the imprisonment of a person; -- more frequently termed a mittimus.
• (n.) The act of pledging or engaging; the act of exposing, endangering or compromising; also, the state of being pledged or engaged.

Commitment is a promise by a lender to make a loan on specific terms or conditions to a borrower or builder. A promise by an investor to purchase mortgages from a lender with specific terms or conditions. An agreement, often in writing, between a lender and a borrower to loan money at a future date subject to the completion of paper work or compliance with stated conditions.

noun

• The capacity to attract and hold something.
• Strip sewn over or along an edge for reinforcement or decoration.
• The act of applying a bandage.
  • synonyms: dressing, bandaging
• One of a pair of mechanical devices that are attached to a ski and that will grip a ski boot; the bindings should release in case of a fall.
  • synonyms: ski binding
• The protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book.
  • usage: "the book had a leather binding"
  • synonyms: book binding, cover, back

verb

• Stick to firmly.
  • usage: "Will this wallpaper adhere to the wall"
  • synonyms: adhere, hold fast, bond, bind, stick, stick to
• Create social or emotional ties.
  • usage: "The grandparents want to bond with the child"
  • synonyms: bind, tie, attach, bond
• Make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope.
  • usage: "The Chinese would bind the feet of their women"
  • synonyms: bind
• Wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose.
  • synonyms: bind, bandage
• Secure with or as if with ropes.
  • usage: "tie down the prisoners"; "tie up the old newspapers and bring them to the recycling shed"
  • synonyms: tie down, tie up, bind, truss
• Bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted.
  • usage: "He's held by a contract"; "I'll hold you by your promise"
  • synonyms: oblige, bind, hold, obligate
• Provide with a binding.
  • usage: "bind the books in leather"
  • synonyms: bind
• Fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord.
  • usage: "They tied their victim to the chair"
  • synonyms: tie, bind
• Form a chemical bond with.
  • usage: "The hydrogen binds the oxygen"
  • synonyms: bind
• Cause to be constipated.
  • usage: "These foods tend to constipate you"
  • synonyms: constipate, bind

adjective

• Executed with proper legal authority.
  • usage: "a binding contract"

• (n.) The act or process of one who or that which, binds.
• (pl.) The transoms, knees, beams, keelson, and other chief timbers used for connecting and strengthening the parts of a vessel.
• (a.) That binds; obligatory.
• (n.) Anything that binds; a bandage; the cover of a book or the cover with the sewing, etc.; something that secures the edge of cloth from raveling.
• (p.pr.&vb.n.) of Bind.

(DoD, NATO) The fastening or securing of items to a movable platform called a pallet. See also palletized unit load.