| 单词 | obligation |
| 释义 | obligation (ɒblɪgeɪʃən ) Word forms: obligations 1. variable noun [usually NOUN to-infinitive] B2 If you have an obligation to do something, it is your duty to do that thing. When teachers assign homework, students usually feel an obligation to do it. Ministers are under no obligation to follow the committee's recommendations. 2. variable noun B2 If you have an obligation to a person, it is your duty to look after them or protect their interests. The United States will do that which is necessary to meet its obligations to its own citizens. [+ to] I have an ethical and a moral obligation to my client. [+ to] Synonyms: responsibility, duty, liability, accountability 3. without obligation phrase In advertisements, if a product or a service is available without obligation, you do not have to pay for that product or service until you have tried it and are satisfied with it. If you are selling your property, why not call us for a free valuation without obligation? You can review your policy in detail for a full 15 days without obligation. Synonyms: free, for free [informal], for nothing, unpaid Collocations: feel an obligation People feel an obligation to help. Times, Sunday Times (2015) There are so many people behind me and I felt a huge obligation to play better for them. Times, Sunday Times (2011) I feel no obligation toward her. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE It's important that you fulfill that obligation. Times, Sunday Times (2009) When scheduling their time for the week, they take care to provide opportunities for fulfilling obligations in each area of life. Christianity Today (2000) The regulator also assessed which mobile phone companies fulfilled the obligation to ensure that their 3 G services cover at least 80 per cent of the population. Times, Sunday Times (2007) There is no legal obligation to allow staff time off for the Olympic Games. Times, Sunday Times (2012) It reminded both sides of their legal obligation to protect medical personnel and facilities. Times, Sunday Times (2014) Each company has a legal obligation to produce an annual report. Finance for the Non-Financial Manager (1989) We have fulfilled our moral obligations. The Sun (2015) Western retailers at the end of the supply chain have a moral obligation too. Times, Sunday Times (2014) And you certainly had no moral obligation to give your supervisor a card. Times, Sunday Times (2007) It's one of those weekends where you should try to catch up with the people you owe some obligations to on the social scene. The Sun The owner of the flying freehold owes an obligation to the owner of the land below not to act negligently or to cause a nuisance. Times, Sunday Times Where an estate agent has several clients, the obligations to one party may come into conflict with the obligations owed to other clients. Times, Sunday Times Of special concern are efforts by cities and states to reduce the pension obligations owed to unionized workers who retire in the future. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In international law it has been used as a legal term describing obligations owed by states towards the community of states as a whole. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A failure to secure financing or to meet payment obligations under aircraft acquisition contracts may lead to a breach of contract. Times,Sunday Times If a business has sufficient liquidity, it has a sufficient amount of very liquid assets and the ability to meet its payment obligations. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Businesses receive no offset to sales tax collection and payment obligations for their own purchases. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This meant that goods-producing enterprises had to meet their wage payment obligations from their own revenue. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Generally they are bonds that are judged by the rating agency as likely enough to meet payment obligations that banks are allowed to invest in them. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He was said to have breached his professional obligation to report suspicious activity to his firm's nominated officer and failed to make a report to the police. Times, Sunday Times Can something be done to insist that heads meet what seems to me a professional obligation to their staff? Times, Sunday Times It's a professional obligation to have looked into things with that level of detail. Times, Sunday Times This restriction eats away at him as difficult situations develop and call out to his medical expertise and sense of professional obligation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 His inquiry found that 80 per cent of centres were performing operations too infrequently to maintain a proper skill level, while many clinics had a 'nonchalant' attitude to professional obligations. Times, Sunday Times This system featured a hierarchy of reciprocal obligations. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Each ayllu owned a parcel of land, and the members had reciprocal obligations to each other. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They also perhaps were able to develop influence by the creation of reciprocal obligations with other important members of the community. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Reciprocal obligations are fulfilled by the nobles carrying out ritual that only they can perform. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Water companies may also be failing in their regulatory obligations to tell customers that they are being overcharged. Times, Sunday Times Concerns from pension-sponsoring employers about funding, coupled with regulatory obligations, heightened the attraction of gilts. Times, Sunday Times This weekend all the firms denied any wrongdoing in the meetings with the undercover reporter and said they took their statutory and regulatory obligations very seriously. Times, Sunday Times We all invest in risk management and compliance with our regulatory obligations and therefore we don't need external people to regulate us. Times, Sunday Times Supply companies then pass the certificates to some form of regulatory body to demonstrate their compliance with their regulatory obligations. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 By religious obligation, they're required to give away a tenth of their income, and gain social prestige by giving more. Times, Sunday Times Wigs may also be used as an article of apparel, or to fulfill a religious obligation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He thus embodied the religious obligation to be hospitable to travelers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 People consider it a religious obligation to bathe and drink at least a few drops of water from this well. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Nothing that threatened a social obligation could be tolerated. Times, Sunday Times I had, albeit reluctantly, shouldered a social obligation. Times, Sunday Times Nor should academic freedom be subjected to the demand that members of a university should have a 'social obligation to require civility from their members'. Times, Sunday Times Sadly, that social obligation rarely derives from a humanitarian drive in us. The Times Literary Supplement We fib about having read books because we feel a social obligation to read. The Times Literary Supplement There's no statutory obligation for councils to provide public toilets, so some simply don't. Times, Sunday Times (2011) The bank has a statutory obligation to identify risks to the economy and the financial system. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Local councils have no statutory obligation towards culture, other than maintaining a library service of some sort. Times, Sunday Times (2014) Translations: Chinese: 义务 Japanese: 義務 |
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