submit
verb /səbˈmɪt/
/səbˈmɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they submit | /səbˈmɪt/ /səbˈmɪt/ |
| he / she / it submits | /səbˈmɪts/ /səbˈmɪts/ |
| past simple submitted | /səbˈmɪtɪd/ /səbˈmɪtɪd/ |
| past participle submitted | /səbˈmɪtɪd/ /səbˈmɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form submitting | /səbˈmɪtɪŋ/ /səbˈmɪtɪŋ/ |
- [transitive] to give a document, proposal, etc. to somebody in authority so that they can study or consider it
- submit something to submit an application/a claim/a proposal
- Completed projects must be submitted by 10 March.
- submit something to somebody/something She submitted her report to the committee.
- Articles should be submitted electronically as email attachments.
Wordfinder- closing date
- competition
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Extra Examples- Candidates for the degree are required to submit a 30 000-word thesis.
- He formally submitted his resignation.
- Six groups were invited to submit proposals for the research.
- They have submitted plans for our approval.
- They have submitted an application for planning permission to build an extension.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- formally
- respectfully
- humbly
- …
- ask somebody to
- invite somebody to
- require somebody to
- …
- for
- to
- [intransitive, transitive] (formal) to accept the authority, control or greater strength of somebody/something; to agree to something because of this synonym give in (to somebody/something), yield
- submit to somebody/something She refused to submit to threats.
- submit yourself to somebody/something He submitted himself to a search by the guards.
Extra ExamplesTopics Discussion and agreementc1- He submitted voluntarily to arrest.
- They abandoned their town rather than submit to the Persians.
- They were forced to submit to Bulgarian rule.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- voluntarily
- willingly
- meekly
- …
- refuse to
- agree to
- be prepared to
- …
- to
- [transitive] submit that… (law or formal) to say or suggest something
- Counsel for the defence submitted that the evidence was inadmissible.
Extra ExamplesTopics Suggestions and advicec2- May I respectfully submit that this is not the right thing to do?
- She submitted that the local authority should bear the cost.
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Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin submittere, from sub- ‘under’ + mittere ‘send, put’. Sense (1) ‘present for judgement’ dates from the mid 16th cent.