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submission

nounnounattested in dialogue

  • //səbˈmɪʃən//
  • /[səbˈmɪʃən] ~ [sb̩ˈmɪʃn̩]/
  • //ˈsʌbˌmɪʃən//
  • /[ˈsʌbˌmɪʃən] ~ [ˈsʌbˌmɪʃn̩]/

The act of submitting or yielding; surrender.

noun

  1. 1

    The act of submitting or yielding; surrender.

  2. 2

    The act of submitting or giving e.g. a completed piece of work.

    Any submissions received after Friday will have marks deducted for lateness.

  3. 3

    The thing which has been submitted.

    In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.

  4. 4

    A feeling of surrender to the control of another; a desire to obey.

  5. 5

    A submission hold in wrestling, mixed martial arts, or other combat sports.

    He used overhooks to block the punches, but he didn't seem to know any submissions off the overhooks.

  6. 6

    Sexual practices that involve serving a dominant partner (or partners) or allowing a partner (or partners) to command or control the submissive; sometimes including bottoming or masochism.

Etymology

From Middle English submissioun, from Old French soubmission, from Latin submissio, from submitto.

noun

  1. 1

    A subset or component of a mission.

    The commander would have to communicate to his operational planners his intent — how he wanted to fight the battle and what missions and submissions were vital to achieving what the corps order had defined as missions for the division.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub-der. English sub- Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *méyth₂eti Proto-Italic *meitō Old Latin mītō Latin mittō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin missiōlbor. English mission English submission From sub- + mission.

Forms

plural
submissions
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).