open-ended commitment
collocation in Englishmeaningsofopen-endedandcommitment
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open-ended
adjective
uk/ˌəʊ.pənˈen.dɪd/us/ˌoʊ.pənˈen.dɪd/
An open-ended activity or situation does not have a planned ending, so it may develop in ...
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commitment
noun
uk/kəˈmɪt.mənt/us/kəˈmɪt.mənt/
a promise or firm decision to ...
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(Definition ofopen-endedandcommitmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofopen-ended commitment
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Rather than offer anopen-endedcommitmentto carers, the four sites drew up their own local guidelines based on the central guidance.
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One of the problems for schools has always been the slightlyopen-endedcommitment.
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One can do this as much as one likes and it is anopen-endedcommitment.
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It seems that we have an almostopen-endedcommitmentto food subsidies.
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He is the man who takes a risk because there is anopen-endedcommitmenton the pre-award dynamism in the final-salary schemes.
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We have also been told that, by having anopen-endedcommitment, we might be entering into something we cannot meet.
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We have to bear in mind that as well as anopen-endedcommitmentthere are open-ended advantages.
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I said that it was anopen-endedcommitmentwhich would allow them to do little or nothing, or something, on any date they chose.
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There is anopen-endedcommitmentenabling people to apply for home improvements grants during this financial year.
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That is a wide,open-endedcommitmentwhich cannot be read into the agreement by any kind of implication.
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In addition, it represents an uncontrollable and effectivelyopen-endedcommitmentto public expenditure.
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With theopen-endedcommitmentto owner-occupiers, which they now have, that figure will be double what it is at the present moment.
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In the long term there is anopen-endedcommitment, particularly with the subvention to private-tenanted property.
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If this is anopen-endedcommitmentfor ever and a day, we are in trouble.
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It is a seriouslyopen-endedcommitmentthat amounts to a blank cheque to the trade unions.
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Instead of that, there was anopen-endedcommitment.
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But to give the kind ofopen-endedcommitmentfor all kinds of political activity on central taxpayers' money would seem to me to be misplaced.
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There is no unusualopen-endedcommitmentprovided in this legislation.
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In a sense it was regarded as anopen-endedcommitment.
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The issue here is whether we can give anopen-endedcommitmentin this case.
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