Word: commitment
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: com
mit
ment
Definition: Act of assuming a financial obligation at a future date.
Morphemes:
Affix: commit
Language: en
PoS: Verb
Meaning: To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step.
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.