obligation
nounid
3407·updated May 9, 2026verified
A binding agreement committing a person to an immediate or future payment or other action.
polysemous
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Classifications
Entity Type
Requirement85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- certificate of indebtednessdebt instrumentdutyindebtedness
- alternatephrasing
- Obligation
- plural
- obligations
- possessive
- obligation's
- pluralpossessive
- obligations'
Framework definitions
- §1
- A binding agreement committing a person to an immediate or future payment or other action.
- §1
- the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force
- §2
- a legal agreement specifying a payment or action and the penalty for failure to comply
- §3
- a written promise to repay a debt
- §4
- a personal relation in which one is indebted for a service or favor
- §5
- the state of being obligated to do or pay something
- §1 · legacy_primary
- A binding agreement committing a person to an immediate or future payment or other action.DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
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