Commitment and Compact

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

• A small cosmetics case with a mirror; to be carried in a woman's purse.
  • synonyms: powder compact
• A signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action.
  • synonyms: covenant, concordat
• A small and economical car.
  • synonyms: compact car

verb

• Have the property of being packable or of compacting easily.
  • usage: "This powder compacts easily"; "Such odd-shaped items do not pack well"
  • synonyms: pack
• Compress into a wad.
  • usage: "wad paper into the box"
  • synonyms: pack, bundle, wad
• Make more compact by or as if by pressing.
  • usage: "compress the data"
  • synonyms: compress, pack together
• Squeeze or press together.
  • usage: "she compressed her lips"; "the spasm contracted the muscle"
  • synonyms: compress, constrict, squeeze, contract, press

adjective

• Closely and firmly united or packed together.
  • usage: "compact soil"; "compact clusters of flowers"
• Having a short and solid form or stature.
  • usage: "a wrestler of compact build"; "he was tall and heavyset"; "stocky legs"; "a thickset young man"
  • synonyms: heavyset, stocky, thick, thickset
• Briefly giving the gist of something.
  • usage: "a short and compendious book"; "a compact style is brief and pithy"; "succinct comparisons"; "a summary formulation of a wide-ranging subject"
  • synonyms: compendious, succinct, summary

• (v.t.) To thrust, drive or press closely together; to join firmly; to consolidate; to make close; -- as the parts which compose a body.
• (p.p.&a) Closely or firmly united, as the particles of solid bodies; firm; close; solid; dense.
• (p.p.&a) Composed or made; -- with of.
• (n.) An agreement between parties; a covenant or contract.
• (p.p.&a) Brief; close; pithy; not diffuse; not verbose; as, a compact discourse.
• (v.t.) To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.
• (p.p.&a) Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.