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commissionershipCommissioning
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committal to writing
Committed
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)
n
1: the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital) [syn: commitment, committal, consignment]
2: the act of committing a crime [syn: perpetration, commission, committal]
Merriam Webster's
noun Date: 1789 commitment, consignment
Oxford Reference Dictionary
n. 1 the act of committing a person to an institution, esp. prison or a mental hospital. 2 the burial of a dead body.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Committal Com*mit"tal, n. The act of committing, or the state of being committed; commitment.
Collin's Cobuild Dictionary
(committals) Committal is the process of officially sending someone to a prison or to hospital. (BRIT; in AM, use commitment) ...his committal to prison. ...committal proceedings. N-VAR
Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms
n. Intrusting, depositing, perpetrating, etc. See commit, in all its senses.
