submission

  • 11submission — *surrender, capitulation Analogous words: yielding, submitting, succumbing, bowing, caving in (see YIELD): compliance, acquiescence, resignation (see under COMPLIANT) Antonyms: resistance …

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  • 12submission — [n] compliance acquiescence, appeasement, assent, backing down, bowing, capitulation, cringing, defeatism, deference, docility, giving in, humbleness, humility, malleability, meekness, nonresistance, obedience, passivism, passivity, pliabilty,… …

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  • 13submission — ► NOUN 1) the action or fact of submitting. 2) a proposal or application submitted for consideration …

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  • 14submission — [səb mish′ən] n. [OFr < L submissio < submissus, pp. of submittere] 1. the act of submitting, yielding, or surrendering 2. the quality or condition of being submissive; resignation; obedience; meekness 3. a) the act of submitting something… …

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  • 15submission — noun 1 accepting sb else s control ADJECTIVE ▪ complete, total VERB + SUBMISSION ▪ demand, expect ▪ The emperor demanded total submission from his subjects …

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  • 16submission */*/ — UK [səbˈmɪʃ(ə)n] / US noun Word forms submission : singular submission plural submissions 1) [countable] a document that you formally give to someone who will make a decision about it All submissions must be received by 10 April. a) [uncountable] …

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  • 17submission — sub|mis|sion [ səb mıʃn ] noun ** 1. ) count a document that you formally give to someone who will make a decision about it: All submissions must be received by April 10. a ) uncount the process of giving a document to someone for them to… …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 18submission — sub|mis|sion S2 [səbˈmıʃən] n [Date: 1400 1500; : Old French; Origin: Latin, from submittere; SUBMIT] 1.) [U] the state of being completely controlled by a person or group, and accepting that you have to obey them force/frighten/beat etc sb into… …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 19submission — noun 1 (U) the state of being completely controlled by a person or group, and accepting that you have to obey them: force/frighten etc sb into submission: The prisoners were eventually starved into submission. | in submission to (=in obedience… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 20Submission — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Submission >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 submission submission yielding Sgm: N 1 nonresistance nonresistance Sgm: N 1 obedience obedience &c. 743 GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 surrender surrender cession …

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