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Obligate

verb

(past & past part. obligated; pres. part. obligating)

Force somebody to do something. Synonyms: compel, oblige.

Commit in order to fulfill an obligation.

Bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted. Synonyms: bind, hold, oblige. "I'll hold you by your promise"

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"Obligate" Quotes from Famous Books

... transmitted recommendations for additional rescissions for the current fiscal year of appropriations amounting to 5.8 billion dollars and of contract authorizations totaling 420 million dollars. The net reduction in authority to obligate will be 5.0 billion dollars, because, of the appropriations, 1.2 billion dollars will have to be restored in subsequent years to liquidate contract ...

— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... however, I resorted to the dollar and cent consideration, and, on investigating, found that, while they were paying $50 per month for that poor light, I could light the cells with candles, three a week to a cell, probably for fourteen dollars. I offered to obligate myself to do it for twenty, and receive only the actual cost whatever it might be below; also to see that no additional trouble came from the melting of the tallow. This argument prevailed, and the warden was ordered to furnish the candles, though he allowed only two a week to a cell. Some of ...

— The Prison Chaplaincy, And Its Experiences • Hosea Quinby

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