submission

plural submissions

1. countableuncountableThe act of submitting or yielding; surrender.

   Synonyms: acquiescence, capitulation, concession, giving in, submittal, obeyance, yielding, deference

2. countableuncountableThe act of submitting or giving e.g. a completed piece of work.

   Any submissions received after Friday will have marks deducted for lateness.

3. countableuncountableThe thing which has been submitted.

   1 more example

   In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.

   2013 June 7, Ed Pilkington, “‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 6

   Synonyms: submittal

4. countableuncountableA feeling of surrender to the control of another; a desire to obey.
5. countableuncountableA submission hold in wrestling, mixed martial arts, or other combat sports.

   He used overhooks to block the punches, but he didn't seem to know any submissions off the overhooks.

   2005, Eddie Bravo, Jiu-jitsu Unleashed, page 12

6. countableuncountableBDSMSexual practices that involve serving a dominant partner (or partners) or allowing a partner (or partners) to command or control the submissive; sometimes including bottoming or masochism.

plural submissions

1. A subset or component of a mission.

   The commander would have to communicate to his operational planners his intent — how he wanted to fight the battle and what missions and submissions were vital to achieving what the corps order had defined as missions for the division.

   1999, James J. Cooke, The All-Americans at War: The 82nd Division in the Great War, 1917-1918, page 69