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Noun: submission  sub'mi-shun
  1. Something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition)
    "several of his submissions were rejected by publishers"; "what was the date of submission of your proposal?";
    - entry, submittal [N. Amer]
     
  2. The act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another
    - compliance
     
  3. The condition of having submitted to control by someone or something else
    "the union was brought into submission"; "his submission to the will of God"
     
  4. The feeling of patient, submissive humbleness
    - meekness
     
  5. A legal document summarizing an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter
     
  6. An agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter
     
  7. (law) a contention presented by a lawyer to a judge or jury as part of the case he is arguing

Derived forms: submissions

Type of: agreement, condition, content, contention, group action, humbleness, humility, message, status, subject matter, substance, understanding, written agreement

Encyclopedia: Submission