obligations
- 1Plural of obligation.
The company struggled to balance its financial obligations against falling revenue.
Citizens have both legal and moral obligations toward one another.
Note
A plural that reaches only the countable uses of obligation: separate duties or promises, the contracts and documents that record them, and the debts of gratitude one person owes another. Used uncountably, as in a sense of obligation, the word takes no plural. In legal and financial writing the plural often carries a qualifier such as contractual, fiduciary or statutory, which names the kind of duty rather than counting duties.
obligations is a form of obligation
obligation, noun: Something that binds a person to act or refrain from acting in a certain way, such as a duty imposed by society, law, or morality, or a contract or promise. Full entry
- Forms
- obligationobligations plural
- Spelling
- obligation → obligations: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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