Usually means: Imposes a duty or requirement.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word obligates:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. obligates: Merriam-Webster
  2. obligates: Collins English Dictionary
  3. obligates: Vocabulary.com
  4. obligates: Wordnik
  5. obligates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. obligates: Wiktionary
  7. obligates: Dictionary.com
  8. obligates: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. obligates: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. obligates: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. obligates: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. obligates: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. obligates: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (obligate)

verb:  (transitive) To bind, compel, constrain, or oblige by a social, legal, or moral tie.
verb:  (transitive, Canada, US, Scotland) To cause to be grateful or indebted; to oblige.
verb:  (transitive, Canada, US, Scotland) To commit (money, for example) in order to fulfill an obligation.
adjective:  (biology) Requiring a (specified) way of life, habitat, etc..
adjective:  Indispensable; essential; necessary; obligatory; mandatory; unavoidably invoked.
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