Usually means: Promise or agree to engage.
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We found 40 dictionaries that define the word commit:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. commit: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. commit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. commit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. commit: Collins English Dictionary
  5. commit: Vocabulary.com
  6. Commit, commit: Wordnik
  7. commit: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. commit: Wiktionary
  9. commit: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. commit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. commit: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. commit: Dictionary.com
  13. commit: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. commit: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. COMMIT (SQL), Commit (data management), Commit (disambiguation), Commit (revision control), Commit (version control), Commit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Commit: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. commit: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. commit: Rhymezone
  19. commit: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. commit: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. commit: Free Dictionary
  22. commit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. commit: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. commit: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. commit: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. commit: Legal dictionary
  4. commit: Financial dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Commit: Database Glossary
  2. Technopedia (No longer online)
  3. commit: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. COMMIT: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. commit: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. commit: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See commiting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.
verb:  (transitive) To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail.
verb:  (transitive) To forcibly evaluate and treat in a medical facility, particularly for presumed mental illness.
verb:  (transitive) To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step. (Traditionally used only reflexively but now also without oneself etc.)
verb:  (transitive, computing, databases) To make a set of changes permanent.
verb:  (transitive, programming) To integrate new revisions into the public or master version of a file in a version control system.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To enter into a contest; to match; often followed by with.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete, Latinism) To confound.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur.
verb:  (euphemistic) die from suicide.
noun:  (computing, databases) The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction), making it a permanent change; such a change.
noun:  (programming) The submission of source code or other material to a source control repository.
noun:  (informal, sports, chiefly US) A person, especially a high school athlete, who agrees verbally or signs a letter committing to attend a college or university.

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