Commitment and Game

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 contest with rules to determine a winner.
  • usage: "you need four people to play this game"
• A single play of a sport or other contest.
  • usage: "the game lasted two hours"
• An amusement or pastime.
  • usage: "they played word games"; "he thought of his painting as a game that filled his empty time"; "his life was all fun and games"
• Animal hunted for food or sport.
• Tennis) a division of play during which one player serves. (
• Games) the score at a particular point or the score needed to win. (
  • usage: "the game is 6 all"; "he is serving for the game"
• The flesh of wild animals that is used for food.
• A secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal. )
  • usage: "they concocted a plot to discredit the governor"; "I saw through his little game from the start"
  • synonyms: plot, secret plan
• The game equipment needed in order to play a particular game.
  • usage: "the child received several games for his birthday"
• Your occupation or line of work.
  • usage: "he's in the plumbing game"; "she's in show biz"
  • synonyms: biz
• Frivolous or trifling behavior.
  • usage: "for actors, memorizing lines is no game"; "for him, life is all fun and games"

verb

• Place a bet on.
  • usage: "Which horse are you backing"; "I'm betting on the new horse"
  • synonyms: bet on, back, gage, stake, punt

adjective

• Disabled in the feet or legs.
  • usage: "a crippled soldier"; "a game leg"
  • synonyms: crippled, halt, halting, lame, gimpy
• Willing to face danger.
  • synonyms: gamy, gamey, gritty, mettlesome, spirited, spunky

• (n.) To rejoice; to be pleased; -- often used, in Old English, impersonally with dative.
• (v.i.) Animals pursued and taken by sportsmen; wild meats designed for or served at, table.
• (v.i.) A scheme or art employed in the pursuit of an object or purpose; method of procedure; projected line of operations; plan; project.
• (a.) Of or pertaining to such animals as are hunted for game or to the act or practice of hunting.
• (v.i.) A contest, physical or mental, according to certain rules, for amusement, recreation or for winning a stake; as, a game of chance; games of skill; field games, etc.
• (v.i.) In some games, a point credited on the score to the player whose cards counts up the highest.
• (v.i.) The use or practice of such a game; a single match at play; a single contest; as, a game at cards.
• (n.) Crooked; lame; as, a game leg.
• (a.) Having a resolute, unyielding spirit, like the gamecock; ready to fight to the last; plucky.
• (n.) To play for a stake or prize; to use cards, dice, billiards or other instruments, according to certain rules, with a view to win money or other thing waged upon the issue of the contest; to gamble.
• (v.i.) Sport of any kind; jest, frolic.
• (n.) To play at any sport or diversion.
• (v.i.) That which is gained, as the stake in a game; also, the number of points necessary to be scored in order to win a game; as, in short whist five points are game.