obligation
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (America) IPA: /ɑb.ləˈɡeɪ.ʃən/
obligation
- The act of binding oneself by a social, legal, or moral tie to someone.
- A social, legal, or moral requirement, duty, contract, or promise that compels someone to follow or avoid a particular course of action.
- A course of action imposed by society, law, or conscience by which someone is bound or restricted.
- (legal) A legal agreement stipulating a specified action or forbearance by a party to the agreement; the document containing such agreement.
- X shall be entitled to subcontract its obligation to provide the Support Services.
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- 1668 December 19, James Dalrymple, “Mr. Alexander Seaton contra Menzies” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 575 ↗
- The Pupil after his Pupillarity, had granted a Diſcharge to one of the Co-tutors, which did extinguiſh the whole Debt of that Co-tutor, and conſequently of all the reſt, they being all correi debendi, lyable by one individual Obligation, which cannot be Diſcharged as to one, and ſtand as to all the reſt.
- X shall be entitled to subcontract its obligation to provide the Support Services.
- (the act of binding oneself by a social, legal, or moral tie to someone) commitment
- (requirement, duty, contract or promise) duty
- (requirement, duty, contract or promise) right
- obligate
- obligated
- obligational
- obligato
- obligatorily
- oblige
- obligee
- obliger
- obliging
- obligingly
- obligingness
- obligor
- French: obligation
- German: Verpflichtung, Pflicht
- Portuguese: obrigação
- Russian: обяза́тельство
- Spanish: obligación
- Portuguese: obrigação, compromisso
- Russian: обя́занность
- Spanish: compromiso, obligación
- Russian: обя́занность
- Spanish: deber, obligación
- Spanish: compromiso, deber, obligación
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