fulfilment

English

Alternative forms

(chiefly US) fulfillment

Etymology

fulfill +‎ -ment Middle English fulfillen, from Old English fullfyllan, from full (“full”) + fyllan (“to fill”)

Pronunciation

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

Noun

fulfilment (countable and uncountable, plural fulfilments)

The act of fulfilling.
The state or quality of being fulfilled; completion; realization.
The act of consummating a desire or promise.
(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)
Finnish: täyttymys (fi), toteutuminen (fi)
French: satisfaction (fr) f
German: Erfüllung (de) f
Greek: ικανοποίηση (el) f (ikanopoíisi)

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)
Spanish: satisfacción (es) f

References

The Random House College Dictionary 1973

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