submission

[ suhb-mish-uhn ]

/ səbˈmɪʃ ən /

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noun

an act or instance of submitting, or yielding control to a more powerful or authoritative entity: The occupying troops demanded complete submission from the remaining civilians.Unable to escape a grappling hold, the wrestler had to signal his submission.

the act or condition of submitting something for consideration, approval, treatment, or action: The submission of your thesis paper is expected in the final semester of study.The submission of seeds to moderate radiation produced dwarf plants with stem mutations.

something that is submitted: Do not post any submissions to the comments section that violate the terms of service for this site.The committee will review your submission and critique your portfolio.

Law. an agreement between parties involved in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbitrator or arbitrators.

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Origin of submission

First recorded in 1375–1425; late Middle English, MIddle French, from Latin submissiōn- (stem of submissiō ) “a letting down, lowering, dropping”; see sub-, mission

OTHER WORDS FROM submission

non·sub·mis·sion, nounpre·sub·mis·sion, nounre·sub·mis·sion, noun

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How to use submission in a sentence

To find these high-quality summaries, they first went hunting for them on OpenReview, a public conference paper submission platform where researchers will often post their own one-sentence synopsis of their paper.
An AI helps you summarize the latest in AI|Karen Hao|November 18, 2020|MIT Technology Review
In the course of processing ballots, we occasionally encountered submissions that were missing their inner secrecy envelope or had otherwise identifying information on them.
A Pennsylvania poll worker explains the painstaking process of counting votes|Kyle Brashear|November 12, 2020|Vox
The agency authorized local post offices to create ballot-only drop-off lines and drive-through ballot submission lanes.
USPS processed 150,000 ballots after Election Day, jeopardizing thousands of votes|Jacob Bogage, Christopher Ingraham|November 5, 2020|Washington Post
The inventor of DeepCT has also now joined the Google TF-Ranking team and is listed on the lately submissions of models on the MS MARCO passage ranking leaderboards.
Could Google passage indexing be leveraging BERT?|Dawn Anderson|October 29, 2020|Search Engine Land

A wolfcentric trainer may call the humans the pack leaders responsible for discipline and forcing submission by others.
Forget Everything You Know About Your Dog (Ep. 436)|Stephen J. Dubner|October 22, 2020|Freakonomics
The gains in the various campaigns were not sufficient, they argued, to warrant the expense of resubmission in the near future.
The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI|Various
Attentive consideration of its provisions leads me to withhold it from resubmission to the Senate.
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents|Grover Cleveland

British Dictionary definitions for submission

submission

/ (səbˈmɪʃən) /

noun

an act or instance of submitting

something submitted; a proposal, argument, etc

the quality or condition of being submissive to another

the act of referring a document, etc, for the consideration of someone else

law

an agreement by the parties to a dispute to refer the matter to arbitration
the instrument referring a disputed matter to arbitration

(in wrestling) the act of causing such pain to one's opponent that he submitsCompare fall (def. 48)

archaic a confession of error

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Origin of submission

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