Something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition):
— Several of his submissions were rejected by publishers.
— What was the date of submission of your proposal?.

synonym: entry.

Roget 725: submission, yielding; nonresistance; obedience etc. 743.    surrender, cession, capitulation, resignation; backdown^†.    obeisance, homage, kneeling, genuflexion^†, courtesy, curtsy, kowtow, prostration.    ... show more

Roget 749: subjection; dependence, dependency; subordination; thrall, thralldom, thraldom, enthrallment, subjugation, bondage, serfdom; feudalism, feudality^†; vassalage, villenage; slavery, enslavement, involuntary servitude; conquest.    service; servitude, servitorship^†; tendence^†, employ, tutelage, clientship^†; liability etc. 177; constraint etc. 751; oppression etc. (severity) 739; yoke etc. (means of restraint) 752; submission etc. 725; obedience etc. 743.    ... show more

Roget 826: inexcitability^†, imperturbability, inirritability^†; even temper, tranquil mind, dispassion; tolerance, patience, coolth [Coll.].    passiveness etc. (physical inertness) 172; hebetude^†, hebetation^†; impassibility etc. (insensibility) 823; stupefaction.    coolness, calmness etc. adj.; composure, placidity, indisturbance^†, imperturbation^†, sang froid [Fr.], tranquility, serenity; quiet, quietude; peace of mind, mental calmness.    staidness etc. adj.; gravity, sobriety, Quakerism^†; philosophy, equanimity, stoicism, command of temper; self-possession, self-control, self-command, self-restraint, ice water in one's veins; presence of mind.    submission etc. 725; resignation; sufferance, supportance^†, endurance, longsufferance^†, forbearance; longanimity^†; fortitude; patience of Job, patience on a monument" [Twelfth Night], patience 'sovereign o'er transmuted ill'" [Johnson]; moderation; repression of feelings, subjugation of feeling; restraint etc. 751.    tranquillization etc. (moderation) 174^†.    ... show more

Roget 859: hopelessness etc. adj.; despair, desperation; despondency, depression etc. (dejection) 837; pessimism, pessimist; Job's comforter; bird of bad omen, bird of ill omen.    abandonment, desolation; resignation, surrender, submission etc. 725.    hope deferred, dashed hopes; vain expectation etc. (disappointment) 509.    airy hopes etc. etc. 858; forlorn hope; gone case, dead duck, gone coon [U.S.]; goner [Slang]; bad job, bad business; enfant perdu [Fr.]; gloomy horizon, black spots in the horizon; slough of Despond, cave of Despair; immedicabile vulnus [Lat.].    ... show more

Dutch: inzending

The act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another.

synonym: compliance.

Roget 743: obedience; observance etc. 772; compliance; submission etc. 725; subjection etc. 749; nonresistance; passiveness, resignation.    allegiance, loyalty, fealty, homage, deference, devotion; constancy, fidelity.    submissness^†, submissiveness; ductility etc. (softness) 324; obsequiousness etc. (servility) 886.    ... show more

The condition of having submitted to control by someone or something else.

Polish: submisja

The feeling of patient, submissive humbleness.

synonym: meekness.

Roget 879: humility, humbleness; meekness, lowness; lowliness, lowlihood^†; abasement, self-abasement; submission etc. 725; resignation.    condescension; affability etc. (courtesy) 894.    modesty etc. 881; verecundity^†, blush, suffusion, confusion; sense of shame, sense of disgrace; humiliation, mortification; let down, set down.    ... show more

A legal document summarizing an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter.

An agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter.

law A contention presented by a lawyer to a judge or jury as part of the case he is arguing.