ETYM From Due.
1. The social force that binds one to one's obligations and the courses of action demanded by that force.
2. Work that one is obliged to perform for moral or legal reasons.
Moral obligation experienced as a felt commandment of the moral law. Moral conflicts occur where a number of duties make apparently irreconcilable demands on us.
The stoics in ancient Greece and Immanuel Kant in Germany (who coined the concept of the categorical imperative) are the moral philosophers who have placed greatest emphasis on duty. Duty is strongly emphasized in Confucianism (especially duty to the state and to ancestors) and in Japanese culture, where it is divided into obligations (on) that can and therefore must be repaid, and continuous obligations, such as those to parents and country. + prikaži više

ETYM Cf. French engagement.
1. A job for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time; SYN. booking.
2. Contact by fitting together; SYN. mesh, meshing, interlocking.
3. Sharing the activities of a group; SYN. participation, involvement.
4. The period preceding marriage after the couple has become engaged. + prikaži više

ETYM Late Lat. exigentia: cf. French exigence.
A pressing or urgent situation.

ETYM Old Eng. necessite, French nécessité, Latin necessitas, from necesse. Related to Necessary.
1. Anything indispensable; SYN. essential, requirement, requisite, necessary.
2. The condition of being essential or indispensable.
In economics, good or service whose consumption is seen as essential in order to maintain a minimum standard of living in a society; for example, food and shelter. + prikaži više

ETYM French obligation. Latin obligatio. Related to Oblige.
1. A legal agreement specifying a payment or action and the penalty for failure to comply.
2. The state of having financial obligations.
In politics, the duty of individuals to obey the laws of their state and, generally, to accept the authority of its government. The basis of political obligation has been depicted as a contract between ruler and people or as arising from the state's ability to provide for the welfare of its citizens. + prikaži više

Required activity; SYN. demand.