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Fulfillment

Fulfillment \Ful*fill"ment\, n. [Written also fulfilment.]

  1. The act of fulfilling; accomplishment; completion; as, the fulfillment of prophecy.

  2. Execution; performance; as, the fulfillment of a promise.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fulfillment

1775, "a filling or carrying out, completion;" see fulfill + -ment.

Wiktionary
fulfillment

n. 1 The act of fulfilling. 2 The state or quality of being fulfilled; completion; realization. 3 The act of consummating a desire or promise. 4 (context business English) The activities performed once an order is received to fulfill the order; packaging, distributing and shipping goods.

WordNet
fulfillment
  1. n. a feeling of satisfaction at having achieved your desires [syn: fulfilment]

  2. the act of consummating something (a desire or promise etc) [syn: fulfilment]

Wikipedia
Fulfillment

Fulfilment or fulfillment (US spelling) may refer to:

  • Fulfillment house, a type of company that specializes in order fulfillment
  • Order fulfillment, the activities performed once an order is received
  • Service fulfillment, the process of providing services to telecommunication subscribers

Usage examples of "fulfillment".

That is, we believed that ahistorical remembering was an aspect of wish fulfillment among the healthiest and most engaged personalities.

I stared hungrily down at her panting bubbies and the stickied muff between her long, quivering thighs, signs of the fulfillment which my feathering and gamahuching had brought her.

Only a fellow Korean, a member of the most perfect race ever to grace a sorry world, could have helped barren Cheeta Ching to total, womanly fulfillment.

In manner and appearance, the Columban brother might almost have been the living embodiment of those early times, his white habit and Celtic tonsure linking him with his inheritance of Druid spirituality, which had seen the coming of the teachings of Christ as fulfillment and extension of a Trinitarian concept long honored in their traditions.

In the complete democracy a man must in some way be made to serve the nation in the very act of contributing to his own individual fulfillment.

She knew true Doms were artists who used a variety of methods to break subs down to the bone and drive them to a level of fulfillment they never could have experienced with their emotional and physical shields in place.

A restriction on the shipments to the Middle East and India from the United Kingdom and from the United States to not more than forty ships a month, if enforced from January to June 1943, inclusive, would improve the imports by 33,000,000 tons, thus avoiding the threatened breakdown and not making us live from hand to mouth, absolutely dependent on the fulfillment of American promises, in the last six months of the year.

A certain amount of political freedom was shown to be indispensable to the making of a nation, and the granting of this amount of political freedom was no more than a fulfillment of the historical process in which the nations of Europe had originated.

To love is, therefore, a duty, the fulfillment of which should engage our noblest powers.

But it belongs to the bishop to deliver, not only to the people, but likewise to priests, such things as serve them in the fulfillment of their respective duties.

Once the idea is grasped that what we call history really means High History, that this is the history of High Cultures, and that these High Cultures are organic unities expressing their inner possibilities in the profuse forms of thought and happening which lie before us, a deep understanding follows of the way in which History uses whatever human material lies to hand for its fulfillment.

Its intensity was a shattering, white-hot fulfillment that created exquisite aftershocks until slowly releasing them to a soothing gentleness.

I told him I had only come to Naples in fulfillment of the promise I had made him at Paris.

How long before the whole of your prophecy will be fulfilled I cannot say, but under the shadow of so much fulfillment in so short a time, and with such threats from a man who is one of the most prominent exponents of the San Francisco mining-ring staring me and this whole community defiantly in the face and pointing to a completion of your augury, do you blame me for feeling that this communication is the last I shall ever write for the Press, especially when a sense alike of personal selfrespect, of duty to this money-oppressed and fear-ridden community, and of American fealty to the spirit of true Liberty all command me, and each more loudly than love of life itself, to declare the name of that prominent man to be JOHN B.

Something always happened to bring him back to reality, and when he realized it was not Paula in his arms, as he had fantasized, he fell apart, could not reach fulfillment.