Obligation

Noun

 * 1) The act of binding oneself by a social, legal, or moral tie to someone.
 * 2) A social, legal, or moral requirement, duty, contract, or promise that compels someone to follow or avoid a particular course of action.
 * 3) A course of action imposed by society, law, or conscience by which someone is bound or restricted.
 * 4)  A legal agreement stipulating a specified payment or action; the document containing such agreement.
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Synonyms

 * duty

Antonyms

 * right

Related terms

 * obligate
 * obligated
 * obligational


 * obligato
 * obligatorily
 * oblige
 * obligee


 * obliger
 * obliging
 * obligingly
 * obligingness
 * obligor

Thesaurus
accountability, accounts payable, accounts receivable, act of grace, act of kindness, affair, agreement, allegiance, amount due, appreciation, appreciativeness, aptitude, aptness, arrearage, assigned task, attempt, bad debts, benefaction, benefit, benevolence, benignity, bill, bills, blessing, bond, borrowing, boundary condition, bounden duty, burden, business, call, call of duty, catch, cause, chance, charge, charges, chits, clause, coaction, commitment, committal, compulsatory, compulsion, compulsiveness, compulsoriness, compulsory, condition, constraint, contingency, contract, courtesy, covenant, deal, debt, dedication, deference, demand, devoir, devotion, donnee, due, dues, duress, duties and responsibilities, duty, effort, enforcement, engagement, enterprise, escalator clause, escape clause, escape hatch, ethics, eventuality, favor, fealty, financial commitment, fine print, floating debt, forcing, funded debt, given, good deed, good offices, good turn, grace, gratefulness, gratitude, grounds, homage, imperative, imperious, indebtedness, indebtment, inevitability, irresistibility, joker, kicker, kind deed, kind offices, kindly act, kindness, labor of love, liability, liableness, likelihood, likeliness, limiting condition, line of duty, loyalty, mandatedness, mandatoriness, maturity, mercy, mission, mitzvah, must, national debt, necessariness, necessitation, necessitude, necessity, need, obligatoriness, obligatory, obligement, office, onus, operation, ought, outstanding debt, parameter, part, place, plan, pledge, possibility, preengagement, prerequisite, probability, program, project, promise, proneness, proposition, provision, provisions, proviso, public debt, recognizance, required, requirement, requisite, respect, responsibility, restraint, right, saving clause, score, self-imposed duty, sense of obligation, service, sine qua non, small print, specification, stipulation, string, task, terms, thankfulness, trust, turn, ultimatum, uncollectibles, understanding, undertaking, unfulfilled pledge, venture, verbal agreement, weakness, whereas, work

Etymology
From Latin obligatio, from obligatum (past participle of obligare), from ob- to + ligare to bind, from.

Translations

 * Danish: pligt
 * Finnish: sitoutuminen
 * Greek: υποχρέωση
 * Hungarian:


 * Romanian: obligare, obligație
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:, còir
 * Spanish:


 * Czech:
 * Danish: pligt
 * Finnish:
 * Greek: υποχρέωση
 * Hungarian:


 * Romanian: obligație
 * Russian: обязанность
 * Scottish Gaelic:, còir
 * Spanish: ,


 * Danish: pligt
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:


 * Russian: обязанность
 * Scottish Gaelic: còir
 * Spanish: ,


 * Finnish: sitoumus
 * Russian:


 * Spanish:, ,


 * : verpligting: verbintenis
 * : 義務, 义务 (yìwù)
 * : verplichting
 * : devo, devigo
 * : engagement, obligation
 * : Verpflichtung
 * : מחויבות (mekhoyavot)
 * : מחויבות (mekhoyavot)


 * : obligation
 * : obbligo
 * : 義務 (ぎむ, gimu)
 * : 의무 (uimu)
 * : കടപ്പാട്, (katappaat)
 * : obrigação
 * : obligación
 * : skyldighet

Noun

 * 1) obligation

Etymology
From obligatio:, from the verb obligo:.

Related terms

 * obliger