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obligation

a legal agreement specifying a payment or action and the penalty for failure to comply

a personal relation in which one is indebted for a service or favor

the state of being obligated to do or pay something; "he is under an obligation to finish the job"

Synonyms:

• accountability,
• accounts payable,
• accounts receivable,
• act of grace,
• act of kindness,
• affair,
• agreement,
• allegiance,
• amount due,
• appreciation,
• appreciativeness,
• aptitude,
• aptness,
• arrearage,
• assigned task,
• attempt,
• bad debts,
• benefaction,
• benefit,
• benevolence,
• benignity,
• bill,
• bills,
• blessing,
• bond,
• borrowing,
• boundary condition,
• bounden duty,
• burden,
• business,
• call,
• call of duty,
• catch,
• cause,
• chance,
• charge,
• charges,
• chits,
• clause,
• coaction,
• commitment,
• committal,
• compulsatory,
• compulsion,
• compulsiveness,
• compulsoriness,
• compulsory,
• condition,
• constraint,
• contingency,
• contract,
• courtesy,
• covenant,
• deal,
• debt,
• dedication,
• deference,
• demand,
• devoir,
• devotion,
• donnee,
• due,
• dues,
• duress,
• duties and responsibilities,
• duty,
• effort,
• enforcement,
• engagement,
• enterprise,
• escalator clause,
• escape clause,
• escape hatch,
• ethics,
• eventuality,
• favor,
• fealty,
• financial commitment,
• fine print,
• floating debt,
• forcing,
• funded debt,
• given,
• good deed,
• good offices,
• good turn,
• grace,
• gratefulness,
• gratitude,
• grounds,
• homage,
• imperative,
• imperious,
• indebtedness,
• indebtment,
• inevitability,
• irresistibility,
• joker,
• kicker,
• kind deed,
• kind offices,
• kindly act,
• kindness,
• labor of love,
• liability,
• liableness,
• likelihood,
• likeliness,
• limiting condition,
• line of duty,
• loyalty,
• mandatedness,
• mandatoriness,
• maturity,
• mercy,
• mission,
• mitzvah,
• must,
• national debt,
• necessariness,
• necessitation,
• necessitude,
• necessity,
• need,
• obligatoriness,
• obligatory,
• obligement,
• office,
• onus,
• operation,
• ought,
• outstanding debt,
• parameter,
• part,
• place,
• plan,
• pledge,
• possibility,
• preengagement,
• prerequisite,
• probability,
• program,
• project,
• promise,
• proneness,
• proposition,
• provision,
• provisions,
• proviso,
• public debt,
• recognizance,
• required,
• requirement,
• requisite,
• respect,
• responsibility,
• restraint,
• right,
• saving clause,
• score,
• self-imposed duty,
• sense of obligation,
• service,
• sine qua non,
• small print,
• specification,
• stipulation,
• string,
• task,
• terms,
• thankfulness,
• trust,
• turn,
• ultimatum,
• uncollectibles,
• understanding,
• undertaking,
• unfulfilled pledge,
• venture,
• verbal agreement,
• weakness,
• whereas,
• work