submit

B2 Topic:Actions & Processes

US /səbˈmɪt/ See IPA manual

Freq #6485

Meanings

1

verb
To give or send something to someone in authority for them to consider.

Usage: For presenting work, use submit something to a person or organization, or submit something for consideration. The recipient is expected to assess or approve it.

Applicants must submit a writing sample to the selection committee by Monday.

You must submit your application by Friday.
2

verb
To agree to obey someone or accept their power, often unwillingly.

They refused to submit to the new rules.
3

verb
To suggest or state something, especially formally.

I submit to you that the accused is innocent.

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Synonyms

2 verb · to agree to obey someone or... yield

3 verb · to suggest or state... state

Word family

Forms submitssubmittedsubmitting

Derived forms resubmitresubmittersubmittablesubmittalsubmitter

Related forms mission submission submissive

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Simplified etymology

Submit entered English in the late Middle Ages from a Latin compound of sub-, “under,” and mittere, “to send” or “let go.” It belongs to the same Latin family as admit, permit, and transmit.

Etymology

From Latin submittere, represented by submittō, to place under or yield, combining sub- with mittō, to send.

*mey- (change) Proto-Indo-European submitten Middle English submittere Latin mittere Latin

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# submit

**Type:** Word
**Level:** B2
**Part of speech:** verb
**IPA (US):** /səbˈmɪt/
**Frequency rank:** 6485

## Meanings
1. To give or send something to someone in authority for them to consider.
2. To agree to obey someone or accept their power, often unwillingly.
3. To suggest or state something, especially formally.

## Usage Notes
- To give or send something to someone in authority for them to consider.: For presenting work, use submit something to a person or organization, or submit something for consideration. The recipient is expected to assess or approve it.

## Examples
- Applicants must submit a writing sample to the selection committee by Monday.
- You must submit your application by Friday.
- They refused to submit to the new rules.
- I submit to you that the accused is innocent.

## Derived Forms
- resubmit
- resubmitter
- submittable
- submittal
- submitter

## Related Forms
- mission
- submission
- submissive

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *mey- (change)
- Root: submitten
- Root: submittere
- Root: mittere - to send

## Etymology
From Latin submittere, represented by submittō, to place under or yield, combining sub- with mittō, to send.

## AI Etymology
Submit is from Middle English submitten, borrowed from Latin submittere, infinitive of submittō (“place under, yield”), from sub (“under, from below, up”) + mitto (“to send”). Compare upsend. In present-day use, it can mean to give or send something to someone in authority for them to consider, or to agree to obey someone or accept their power, often unwillingly.

## Topics
- Actions & Processes

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