obligation : Idioms & Phrases


Days of obligation

  • (R. C. Ch.), festival days when it is obligatory on the faithful to attend Mass. Shipley.
Webster 1913

financial obligation

  • noun an obligation to pay money to another party
    indebtedness; liability.
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holy day of obligation

  • noun a day when Catholics must attend Mass and refrain from servile work, and Episcopalians must take Communion
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Imperfect obligations

  • (Law), obligations as of charity or gratitude, which cannot be enforced by law.
Webster 1913

moral obligation

  • noun an obligation arising out of considerations of right and wrong
    • he did it out of a feeling of moral obligation
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Simple obligation

  • (Rom. Law), an obligation which does not depend for its execution upon any event provided for by the parties, or is not to become void on the happening of any such event. Burrill.
Webster 1913

treasury obligations

  • noun negotiable debt obligations of the United States government which guarantees that interest and principal payments will be paid on time
    Treasury.
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