fulfilment

English

Alternative forms

• (chiefly US) fulfillment

Etymology

fulfill +‎ -ment (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English fulfillen, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English fullfyllan, from full (“full”) + fyllan (“to fill”)

Pronunciation

• enPR: fo͝ol-fíl-mənt, IPA^(key): /fʊlˈfɪl.mənt/

Noun

fulfilment (countable and uncountable, plural fulfilments)

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. (business) The activities performed once an order is received to fulfill the order; packaging, distributing and shipping goods.

Translations

being fulfilled

• Bulgarian: изпълнение (bg) (izpǎlnenie), реализация (bg) (realizacija)
• Czech: naplnění n (satisfaction)
• Danish: opfyldelse c, indfrielse c
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} plenumiĝo
• Finnish: täyttymys (fi), toteutuminen (fi)
• French: satisfaction (fr) f
• German: Erfüllung (de) f
• Greek: ικανοποίηση (el) f (ikanopoíisi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: oppfyllelse m, oppfylling (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: oppfylling f

• Romanian: îndeplinire (ro) f, satisfacere (ro) f, satisfacție (ro) f
• Russian: выполне́ние (ru) n (vypolnénije)
• Slovak: naplnenie
• Spanish: satisfacción (es) f

References

• The Random House College Dictionary 1973