Synonyms of the word

committal

• n. The act of entrusting something to someone.
• n. The act of committing someone to confinement; an order for someone's imprisonment.
• n. The act of perpetrating an offence.
• n. The act of committing a body to the grave at a burial or to the furnace at a cremation.
• adj. Of or relating to a committee.

commission

• n. A sending or mission (to do or accomplish something).
• n. An official charge or authority to do something, often used of military officers.
• n. The thing to be done as agent for another.
• n. A body or group of people, officially tasked with carrying out a particular function.
• n. A fee charged by an agent or broker for carrying out a transaction.
• n. The act of committing (e.g. a crime).
• v. (transitive) To send or officially charge someone or some group to do something.
• v. (transitive) To place an order for (often piece of art).
• v. (transitive) To put into active service.

commitment

• n. The act or an instance of committing, putting in charge, keeping, or trust, especially.
• n. Promise or agreement to do something in the future, especially.
• n. Being bound emotionally or intellectually to a course of action or to another person or persons.
• n. The trait of sincerity and focused purpose.
• n. Perpetration, in a negative manner, as in a crime or mistake.
• n. State of being pledged or engaged.
• n. The act of being locked away, such as in an institution for the mentally ill or in jail.

confinement

• n. the act of confining or the state of being confined.
• n. lying-in, time of giving birth.

consignment

• n. A collection of goods to be sent, in transit or having been sent.
• n. The act of consigning.

crime

• n. (countable) A specific act committed in violation of the law.
• n. (uncountable) The practice or habit of committing crimes.
• n. (uncountable) criminal acts collectively.
• n. Any great wickedness or sin; iniquity.
• n. (obsolete) That which occasions crime.
• v. (nonstandard, rare) To commit crime(s).

perpetration

• n. The act of perpetrating.
• n. Something (such as a crime) that is perpetrated.