Usually means: Commitment to perform or refrain.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. promise: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. promise: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. promise: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. promise: Collins English Dictionary
  5. promise: Vocabulary.com
  6. Promise, promise: Wordnik
  7. promise: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. promise: Wiktionary
  9. promise: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. promise: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. promise: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. promise: Dictionary.com
  13. promise (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
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  15. Promise: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. promise: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. promise: Rhymezone
  18. promise: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. promise: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. promise: Free Dictionary
  21. promise: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. promise: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. promise: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. promise: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. promise: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  7. Promise (disambiguation), promise: Legal dictionary
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. promise: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. PROMISE: Acronym Finder
  2. promise: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. promise: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Promise: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) an oath or affirmation; a vow.
noun:  (countable, law) A transaction between two persons whereby the first person undertakes in the future to render some service or gift to the second person or devotes something valuable now and here to his use.
noun:  (uncountable) Reason to expect improvement or success; potential.
noun:  (countable, programming) A placeholder object representing the eventual result of an asynchronous operation.
noun:  (countable, obsolete) bestowal or fulfillment of what is promised
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To commit to (some action or outcome), or to assure (a person) of such commitment; to make an oath or vow.
verb:  (intransitive) To give grounds for expectation, especially of something good.
noun:  A female given name from English.

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