Commitment - Definition and Overview

• In mental hygiene and psychiatry, the practice of using legal means or forms to commit a person to a mental hospital, insane asylum or psychiatric ward against the will or over the protests of that person is Involuntary commitment
• In philosophy, belief in an ontology is an Ontological commitment
• In the telephone industry, the beginning of AT&T's monopoly was the Kingsbury Commitment
• In cryptography: Commitment scheme
• In personal relationships, commitment can be characterised as interaction dominated by obligations. These obligations may be mutual, or self-imposed, or explicitly stated, or may not. Distinction is often made between commitment as a member of an organisation (such as a sporting team, a religion, or as an employee); and what is termed personal commitment, which is a relationship of obligation to an individual.