submission

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The act or fact of submitting to the power of another.
• noun The act of submitting something for consideration.
• noun Something so submitted.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The act of submitting, in any sense of that word; especially, the act of yielding; entire surrender to the control or government of another.
• noun The state of being submissive; humility; yielding of opinion; acquiescence.
• noun Compliance with the commands or laws of a superior; obedience.
• noun In law, an agreement to submit a disputed point to arbitration.
• noun Synonyms Compliance, etc. See obedience.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun The act of submitting; the act of yielding to power or authority; surrender of the person and power to the control or government of another; obedience; compliance.
• noun The state of being submissive; acknowledgement of inferiority or dependence; humble or suppliant behavior; meekness; resignation.
• noun Acknowledgement of a fault; confession of error.
• noun (Law) An agreement by which parties engage to submit any matter of controversy between them to the decision of arbitrators.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun the act of submitting
• noun the thing which has been submitted
• noun A submission hold in wrestling.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition)
• noun (law) a contention presented by a lawyer to a judge or jury as part of the case he is arguing
• noun a legal document summarizing an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter
• noun the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another
• noun the condition of having submitted to control by someone or something else
• noun an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter
• noun the feeling of patient, submissive humbleness