submit
pronunciation
How to pronounce submit in British English:
UK [səbˈmɪt]
How to pronounce submit in American English:
US [səbˈmɪt]
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- Verb:
- refer for judgment or consideration
- put before
- yield to the control of another
- hand over formally
- refer to another person for decision or judgment
- submit or yield to another's wish or opinion
- accept or undergo, often unwillingly
- make an application as for a job or funding
- make over as a return
- accept as inevitable
Word Origin
- submit (v.)
- late 14c., "to place (oneself) under the control of another, to yield oneself," from Latin submittere "to yield, lower, let down, put under, reduce," from sub "under" (see sub-) + mittere "let go, send" (see mission). Transitive sense of "refer to another for consideration" first recorded 1550s. Related: Submitted; submitting.
Example
- 1. They also urged people to submit their own quizzes .
- 2. He suggests having banks simultaneously submit combinations of bids .
- 3. Marx remained among those who would not submit .
- 4. The opposition is refusing to submit and the revolution is spreading .
- 5. Only if the core countries will support the rest as they submit themselves to radical political , social and economic reform .