Word: commitment
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: com
mit
ment
Definition: The act of sending a legislative bill to committee for review.
Morphemes:
Affix: commit
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction or source code into a source control repository), making it a permanent change.
Affix: -ment
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form nouns from verbs, the nouns having the sense of "the action or result of what is denoted by the verb".
Etymology Compounds: Affix: -ment
Language: fro
Decoded: -ment
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form nouns from verbs, usually of action or state resulting of them. Equivalent to the English -ment.