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committing

kuh-MIT-ing/kəˈmɪtɪŋ/

2 meanings of committing

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  1. 1
    verb
    Present participle and gerund of commit.

    The board is committing significant funds to the new facility.

    He hesitated before committing to such a long contract.

    Note

    Every meaning of commit passes through this form, so the surrounding words decide which one is in play. Committing funds to a project entrusts them, committing a crime perpetrates it, and committing to a contract pledges. That pledging use traditionally needed oneself (committing oneself to) and now often drops it. Software has added committing changes, which makes them permanent. When it is counted or pluralized, it has become the noun for the act.

  2. 2
    noununcountable
    The act of committing something, in any sense of the verb, such as pledging resources or consigning a person to an institution.

    The committing of additional resources required full board approval.

    The judge oversaw the committing of the prisoner to the institution.

    Similarconsignment

    Note

    A true countable noun that takes a plural, which the verbal gerund cannot. John Taylor's The Scourge of Basenesse (1624) sets old omittings against new committings, a neat pairing of what was left undone with what was done. The Commonweal in 1930 still writes of punctual committings to print. Reach for it when the acts are being counted or set side by side; for a single ongoing action, the committing of serves.

committing is a form of commit

commit, verb: To pledge or bind oneself, or to expose or endanger someone or something through a decisive step that cannot easily be reversed. Full entry

Forms
commitcommits he/she/itcommitting -ing formcommitted past tense, past participle
Spelling
commit → committing: double the t, add -ing

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