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submission

Academic Word List, sublist 7.

About 6.29 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The act of submitting or yielding; surrender.
  2. noun 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. noun The thing which has been submitted.
  4. noun A feeling of surrender to the control of another; a desire to obey.
  5. noun A submission hold in wrestling, mixed martial arts, or other combat sports.
  6. noun 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.
  7. noun A subset or component of a mission.

Similar words

entry compliance submit rendition subjugation remission surrender submittal submitting subjection

Often followed by

to of and is by in was or that

Word family

submissions submit submits submitted submitting

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