Submittal

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. The act of presenting documents for official review and approval requires adherence to specific guidelines
2. A formal process that involves delivering necessary materials or papers to an authority for evaluation and acceptance
3. The action of delivering documents or materials to a higher authority for inspection and authorization

Etymology: "Submittal" is a plain English formation: the verb "submit" with the suffix "-al" attached, producing a noun for the act or result of submitting something, especially a document or proposal for review. The suffix itself has a long journey behind it. It descends from a Proto-Indo-European root, passed into Latin as "-alis," which turned adjectives from nouns and reached English through French, where Latin "-alis" had become "-el" and then "-al" in Middle English. English speakers thus added this suffix to verbs and nouns over many centuries, so the ending feels native even though its ancestry runs back through Rome. The base, "submit," was borrowed from Latin "submittere," meaning to lower or put under, and it kept that sense of yielding or placing beneath another's authority in its earliest English uses. "Submittal" belongs to the later, more businesslike branch of that family, where the emphasis falls on putting a document before a reviewer rather than bowing to a superior.

Synonyms: submission, presentation, offer, proposition, entry

Antonyms: rejection, withdrawal, refusal, non-submission, denial