Tuesday, June 26, 2018

OBLIGATION

WORD: OBLIGATION

MEANING:
1.
a. A social, legal, or moral requirement, such as a duty, contract, or promise, that compels one to follow or avoid a particular course of action: Are you able to meet your obligations? I have an obligation to attend their wedding.
b. The constraining power of a promise, contract, law, or sense of duty: I felt no obligation to offer my advice.
c. Law A document in which a person binds himself or herself to undertake or refrain from doing a particular act.
d. A debt instrument, such as a loan, mortgage, or bond.
2. The state, fact, or feeling of being indebted to another for a special service or favor received: If they invite us, aren't we under obligation to invite them in return?
3. duties, responsibilities, requirements

EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Tightening noose around loan defaulters, the Reserve Bank today said guarantors, who refuse to fulfil their obligations to banks despite having adequate resources, will also be treated as wilful defaulters.

PRONOUNCE:
ob·li·ga·tion - आब्लगशन / आब्लगैशन

LINK: OBLIGATION

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