Meaning of submit in English

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  1. Pronunciation
  2. Verb
    1. Etymology
    2. Definitions

  1. Pronunciation

    /səbˈmɪt/

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  1. Verb

    submit

    Etymology

    late Middle English: from Latin submittere, from sub-‘under’ + mittere‘send, put’. submit (sense 3)‘present for judgement’ dates from the mid 16th century

    Definitions

    1. refer for judgment or consideration

    Examples

    • « She submitted a proposal to the agency »

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  2. 2. put before

    Examples

    • « I submit to you that the accused is guilty »

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  3. 3. yield to the control of another

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  4. 4. hand over formally

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  5. 5. refer to another person for decision or judgment

    Examples

    • « She likes to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues »

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  6. 6. submit or yield to another's wish or opinion

    Examples

    • « The government bowed to the military pressure »

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  7. 7. accept or undergo, often unwillingly

    Examples

    • « We took a pay cut »

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  8. 8. make an application as for a job or funding

    Examples

    • « We put in a grant to the NSF »

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  9. 9. make over as a return

    Examples

    • « They had to render the estate »
  10. 10. accept as inevitable

    Examples

    • « He resigned himself to his fate »

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Famous quotes

  • « I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law. »
    Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • « If women be educated for dependence that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop? »
    Mary Wollstonecraft
  • « Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent. »
    Mahatma Gandhi
  • « Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox. »
    Anna Howard Shaw
  • « I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it. »
    David Eddings

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