Commitment and Resolve

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 trait of being resolute.
  • usage: "his resoluteness carried him through the battle"; "it was his unshakeable resolution to finish the work"
  • synonyms: resoluteness, firmness, firmness of purpose, resolution
• A formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote.
  • synonyms: resolution, declaration

verb

• Bring to an end; settle conclusively.
  • usage: "The case was decided"; "The judge decided the case in favor of the plaintiff"; "The father adjudicated when the sons were quarreling over their inheritance"
  • synonyms: decide, settle, adjudicate
• Reach a conclusion after a discussion or deliberation.
  • synonyms: conclude
• Reach a decision.
  • usage: "he resolved never to drink again"
  • synonyms: purpose
• Understand the meaning of.
  • usage: "The question concerning the meaning of life cannot be answered"
  • synonyms: answer
• Make clearly visible.
  • usage: "can this image be resolved"
• Find the solution.
  • usage: "solve an equation"; "solve for x"
  • synonyms: solve
• Cause to go into a solution.
  • usage: "The recipe says that we should dissolve a cup of sugar in two cups of water"
  • synonyms: dissolve, break up

• (v.i.) To let the tones (as of a discord) follow their several tendencies, resulting in a concord.
• (v.i.) To be separated into its component parts or distinct principles; to undergo resolution.
• (v.i.) To change or convert by resolution or formal vote; -- used only reflexively; as, the house resolved itself into a committee of the whole.
• (v.i.) To melt; to dissolve; to become fluid.
• (v.i.) To form a purpose; to make a decision; especially, to determine after reflection; as, to resolve on a better course of life.
• (v.i.) To dispere or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumor.
• (v.i.) To be settled in opinion; to be convinced.
• (v.i.) To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; -- said of complex ideas or obscure questions; to make clear or certain; to free from doubt; to disentangle; to unravel; to explain; hence, to clear up or dispel, as doubt; as, to resolve a riddle.
• (v.i.) To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain.
• (n.) That which has been resolved on or determined; decisive conclusion; fixed purpose; determination; also, legal or official determination; a legislative declaration; a resolution.
• (v.i.) To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle; as, he was resolved by an unexpected event.
• (v.i.) To solve, as a problem, by enumerating the several things to be done, in order to obtain what is required; to find the answer to or the result of.
• (v.i.) To express, as an opinion or determination, by resolution and vote; to declare or decide by a formal vote; -- followed by a clause; as, the house resolved (or, it was resolved by the house) that no money should be apropriated (or, to appropriate no money).
• (n.) The act of resolving or making clear; resolution; solution.
• (v.i.) To relax; to lay at ease.
• (v.i.) To separate the component parts of; to reduce to the constituent elements; -- said of compound substances; hence, sometimes, to melt or dissolve.