Commitment and Objective

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.

• (a.) Of or pertaining to an object.
• (n.) An object glass. See under Object, n.
• (a.) Of or pertaining to an object; contained in or having the nature or position of, an object; outward; external; extrinsic; -- an epithet applied to whatever ir exterior to the mind or which is simply an object of thought or feeling, and opposed to subjective.
• (a.) Pertaining to or designating, the case which follows a transitive verb or a preposition, being that case in which the direct object of the verb is placed. See Accusative, n.
• (n.) The objective case.
• (n.) Same as Objective point, under Objective, a.

noun

• The goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable. )
  • usage: "the sole object of her trip was to see her children"
  • synonyms: aim, object, target
• The lens or system of lenses in a telescope or microscope that is nearest the object being viewed.
  • synonyms: objective lens, object lens, object glass

adjective

• Undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena.
  • usage: "an objective appraisal"; "objective evidence"
  • synonyms: nonsubjective
• Serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes.
  • usage: "objective case"; "accusative endings"
  • synonyms: accusative
• Emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings, insertion of fictional matter, or interpretation.
  • usage: "objective art"
  • synonyms: documentary
• Belonging to immediate experience of actual things or events.
  • usage: "objective benefits"; "an objective example"; "there is no objective evidence of anything of the kind"

OBJECTIVE is a statement that is written in terms of specific measurable time-based and verifiable outcomes that challenge the organization to be more responsive to the environment to achieve the desired goals. Dependent upon usage, GOALS are general in nature, while OBJECTIVES are specific, measurable and time-based. In some organizations, the meanings for GOAL and OBJECTIVE are reversed.

(DoD) The specific target of the action taken (for example, a definite terrain feature, the seizure or holding of which is essential to the commander's plan, or, an enemy force or capability without regard to terrain features). See also target.
(DoD) The clearly defined, decisive, and attainable goal toward which every operation is directed.