submit
/səbˈmɪt/
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Type
Verb
Meaning
To give a document, proposal, or piece of work to someone so they can review, consider, or decide on it.
She submitted her final report to the committee before the five o'clock deadline.
Have you submitted your college application yet?
To yield or surrender to the control, will, or authority of someone or something else.
The small rebel force refused to submit to the government's demands.
Why would anyone submit to such strict conditions without questioning them?
How it's used
When this means “present something for consideration”
- submit an application
- submit a report to the director
“submit it to them.”
He submitted his manuscript to three publishers.
When this means “yield to an authority or condition”
- submit to authority
“submit to it.”
The defendant chose to submit to the court's jurisdiction.
Collocations
- submit a report
- submit a proposal
- submit for approval
- submit a claim
- refuse to submit
Antonyms
- resist
- defy