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Narrator: Today's word is "Obligation" — noun, pronounced /ˌɒblɪˈɡeɪʃn/, with the stress on "ga".
Narrator: An obligation is something you must do because of a law, rule, promise or duty.
Narrator: In plain English, a duty.
Narrator: It comes from Latin obligare, to bind.
Narrator: A common collocation is "no obligation", which describes offers with no commitment.
Narrator: It differs from "choice", because an obligation is required.
Narrator: In a second sense, feeling "under an obligation" means owing someone a favour.
Narrator: Law, finance, ethics and sales rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: an obligation binds you.
Speaker A: Do I have to buy after the free trial?
Speaker B: No OBLIGATION! From Latin obligare, to bind.
Speaker A: Cancel anytime?
Speaker B: Exactly.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "A legal obligation to pay tax", finance. "Free quote, no obligation", sales. "A moral obligation to help", ethics.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Say "an obligation to do", not "an obligation of doing".
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Duty is its twin, responsibility its cousin, and commitment an alternative — yet obligation keeps its binding charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "obligation" in AI prompts — useful for contracts and marketing.
Speaker A: How for contracts?
Speaker B: Extract.
Prompt: List each party’s obligations in this contract in a table.
Speaker A: And marketing?
Speaker B: Trust.
Prompt: Write a no-obligation free trial banner that is honest and clear.
Speaker A: Could it help compliance?
Speaker B: Yes, for GDPR.
Prompt: Summarise a small business’s data protection obligations.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Ethics.
Prompt: Discuss whether we have an obligation to help strangers.
Obligation — meaning in Arabic & definition More O courses GL Dictionary