Online dictionaryOnline dictionary
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Obligation   /ˌɑbləgˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Obligation

noun
1.
The social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force.  Synonyms: duty, responsibility.  "Every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty"
2.
The state of being obligated to do or pay something.
3.
A personal relation in which one is indebted for a service or favor.  Synonym: indebtedness.
4.
A written promise to repay a debt.  Synonyms: certificate of indebtedness, debt instrument.
5.
A legal agreement specifying a payment or action and the penalty for failure to comply.



Related searches:
financial obligation
holy day of obligation
moral obligation


WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |
Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar




"Obligation" Quotes from Famous Books



... then, after a pause, he said, aloud and ungraciously enough, "All right. I—I'm very much obliged, of course." And he proceeded to follow them, thinking in his heart, "But it's bad form, all the same, to force an obligation ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 4 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... from every obligation, but at the same time she had declared that her whole life would be consecrated to his memory. Richard felt that the release was just as nominal in his own case. He knew that he never could love any woman but ...
— The Hallam Succession • Amelia Edith Barr
... the privileges of a wife to upset a man's things, without her legal obligation to put them straight again. [Glances at GERTRUDE.] I wish Bob's sister had the same privileges in my room that ...
— Shenandoah - Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911 • Bronson Howard
... understand you to advocate, is this: that provided your employment be not contrary to the laws of the state, you are under no obligation to inquire particularly as to its influence upon the public happiness after the products of your labor get out of your own hands. If this be a correct principle for your guidance, it is certainly a correct one for others. Let us apply it ...
— Select Temperance Tracts • American Tract Society
... to do Colonel Geraldine, his Master of the Horse, one of those services, so common in my profession, which are never forgotten upon either side. I have no need to explain to you the nature of the obligation under which he was laid; suffice it to say that I knew him ready to serve me in any practicable manner. Now, it was necessary for you to gain London with your trunk unopened. To this the Custom House seemed ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 4 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson


More quotes...


Copyright © 2025 Dictionary One.com