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Commitment and Accountability Definitions

Commitment

The act of referring a legislative bill to committee.

Accountability

Expected or required to account for one's actions; answerable.

Commitment

Official consignment, as to a prison or mental health facility.

Accountability

Capable of being explained
An accountable phenomenon.

Commitment

A court order authorizing consignment to a prison.
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Accountability

The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account or give an explanation; liability to be held responsible or answerable for something.

Commitment

A pledge or obligation, as to follow a certain course of action
A public official's commitment to uphold the Constitution.

Accountability

An open determination of one's responsibility for something and imposition of consequences.

Commitment

Something pledged, especially an engagement by contract involving financial obligation.

Accountability

Good-faith acceptance of one's responsibility for something and of its consequences.
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Commitment

The state of being emotionally or intellectually devoted, as to a belief, a course of action, or another person
A profound commitment to the family.

Accountability

(military) The obligation imposed by law or regulation on an officer or other person for keeping accurate record of property, documents, or funds. The person having this obligation may or may not have actual possession of the property, documents, or funds. Accountability is concerned primarily with records, while responsibility is concerned primarily with custody, care, and safekeeping.

Commitment

The act or an instance of committing, putting in charge, keeping, or trust, especially:

Accountability

The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account; the obligation to bear the consequences for failure to perform as expected; accountableness.

Commitment

The act of sending a legislative bill to committee for review.

Accountability

Responsibility to someone or for some activity

Commitment

Official consignment sending a person to prison or a mental health institution.

Commitment

Promise or agreement to do something in the future, especially:

Commitment

Act of assuming a financial obligation at a future date.

Commitment

Being bound emotionally or intellectually to a course of action or to another person or persons.

Commitment

The trait of sincerity and focused purpose.

Commitment

Perpetration as in a crime or mistake.

Commitment

State of being pledged or engaged.

Commitment

The act of being locked away, such as in an institution for the mentally ill or in jail.

Commitment

The act of committing, or putting in charge, keeping, or trust; consignment; esp., the act of committing to prison.
They were glad to compound for his bare commitment to the Tower, whence he was within few days enlarged.

Commitment

A warrant or order for the imprisonment of a person; - more frequently termed a mittimus.

Commitment

The act of referring or intrusting to a committee for consideration and report; as, the commitment of a petition or a bill.

Commitment

A doing, or perpetration, in a bad sense, as of a crime or blunder; commission.

Commitment

The act of pledging or engaging; the act of exposing, endangering, or compromising; also, the state of being pledged or engaged.

Commitment

The trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose;
A man of energy and commitment

Commitment

The act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action;
His long commitment to public service
They felt no loyalty to a losing team

Commitment

An engagement by contract involving financial obligation;
His business commitments took him to London

Commitment

A message that makes a pledge

Commitment

The official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital)

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