Definition of "submission" []

• The act of submitting to the power of another: "Oppression that cannot be overcome does not give rise to revolt but to submission” ( Simone Weil). (noun)
• The state of having submitted. See Synonyms at surrender. (noun)
• The state of being submissive or compliant; meekness. (noun)
• The act of submitting something for consideration. (noun)
• Something so submitted: read three fiction manuscripts and other such submissions. (noun)

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• "So it lost money for 55 years and then we changed the strategy and it's been profitable ever since. 2010, the FDA reviewed the entire label as part of a label submission that we had with infantile spasms and has now-the label is completely modernized and the 19 indications look good to us for the future."
• "Getting them wrong in a professional submission is shorthand for "I don't take time and trouble over my work," to which the obvious answer is: "Then why should I?""
• "Objections to the term submission answered -- The effect of Mr. Jefferson's doctrine upon many conscientious persons in the"