submissionnoun
uk/səbˈmɪʃ.ən/us/səbˈmɪʃ.ən/submission noun (GIVING)
[ C or U ] the act of giving something for a decision to be made by others, or a document formally given in this way:
No date has yet been set for the submission of applications.
The final deadline for submissions is 21 February.
[ + that ] formal The judge will hear the defence's submission (= suggestion) that the case be dismissed.
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Suggestions & proposals
- about
- float
- get at sth
- grab
- hint
- how about...? idiom
- how does... grab you? idiom
- how/what about...? idiom
- indication
- it wouldn't hurt you to do sth idiom
- might
- offer
- on the table idiom
- point sb towards/in the direction of sth idiom
- posit
- postulate
- proposal
- put
- put ideas into sb's head idiom
- table
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submission noun (ACCEPTING)
[ U ] the act of allowing someone or something to have power over you:
They thought the country could be bombed into submission.
The teachers agreed to a special meeting, in submission to parents' demands.
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Weakness and vulnerability
- Achilles heel
- at a low ebb idiom
- be (only) flesh and blood idiom
- be sb's poodle idiom
- chink in sb's armour idiom
- faint
- frailty
- impotent
- indefensible
- lax
- limp
- malleable
- susceptibility
- susceptible
- toothless
- totter
- underbelly
- unprotected
- unsteady
- wraith
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