Usually means: Duty required by moral or legal.
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We found 51 dictionaries that define the word Obligation:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. obligation: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. obligation: Merriam-Webster
  3. obligation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. obligation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. obligation: Collins English Dictionary
  6. obligation: Vocabulary.com
  7. Obligation, obligation: Wordnik
  8. obligation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. obligation: Wiktionary
  10. obligation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. obligation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. obligation: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. obligation: Dictionary.com
  14. obligation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. obligation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Obligation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Obligation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. obligation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. obligation: Rhymezone
  20. obligation, obligation (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. obligation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. obligation: FreeDictionary.org
  23. obligation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. obligation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. obligation: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names

Business (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. obligation: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. obligation: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. obligation: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  7. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  8. OBLIGATION: Accounting Glossary
  9. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  10. Obligation: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  11. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  12. Obligation: Investopedia
  13. obligation: Legal dictionary
  14. Obligation: Financial dictionary
  15. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  16. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. obligation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. obligation: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  3. OBLIGATION: Masonic Dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Obligation: Catholic Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. obligation: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (obligation)

▸ noun:  The act of binding oneself by a social, legal, or moral tie to someone.
▸ noun:  A social, legal, or moral requirement, duty, contract, or promise that compels someone to follow or avoid a particular course of action.
▸ noun:  A course of action imposed by society, law, or conscience by which someone is bound or restricted.
▸ noun:  (law) A legal agreement stipulating a specified action or forbearance by a party to the agreement; the document containing such agreement.
▸ noun:  (countable) Reason for being obliged to, that is, grateful for, something.

Similar:
duty, responsibility, obligated, obligational, commitment, requirement, contractual, expectation, liability, compulsion, more...

Opposite:
freedom, choice, option, liberty, discretion

Types:
moral, legal, contractual, social, professional, ethical, religious, parental, filial, more...

Phrases:
moral obligation, legal obligation, general obligation, under obligation, political obligation, more...

Adjectives:
moral, legal, social, contractual, political, general, religious, personal, mutual, special, ethical

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Similar:
duty, responsibility, obligated, obligational, commitment, requirement, contractual, expectation, liability, compulsion, more...

Opposite:
freedom, choice, option, liberty, discretion

Types:
moral, legal, contractual, social, professional, ethical, religious, parental, filial, more...

Phrases:
moral obligation, legal obligation, general obligation, under obligation, political obligation, financial obligation, debt obligation, fiduciary obligation, positive obligation, affirmative obligation, more...

Adjectives:
moral, legal, social, contractual, political, general, religious, personal, mutual, special, ethical

Colors:
    gray,     charcoal,     burgundy,     maroon,     olive, more...



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