{
  "id": "submit.administrative",
  "term": "submit",
  "sense": "administrative",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 18,
  "arena": "general",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to give a document to a human or system that they may act on it",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "give.transfer",
      "document.record",
      "act.deed",
      "human.person",
      "system.organized"
    ],
    "interaction": "The act of transferring a document enables a human or system to perform an action upon it.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "authorized submission",
      "actionable receipt",
      "institutional processing"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2023, a researcher uploaded a preprint to arXiv, assigning it a DOI for peer review.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "A citizen filed Form N-400 with USCIS to begin U.S. naturalization in 2022.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "During the Apollo 11 mission, Buzz Aldrin submitted a contingency plan to Mission Control after Eagle's descent.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "give.transfer",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "submit is a kind of give"
    },
    {
      "id": "process.general",
      "type": "enables",
      "note": "submission enables a process"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "submit",
    "submits",
    "submitted",
    "submitting"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added act.deed, human.person, and system.organized to components since they are constitutive of the defined interaction. Definition remained accurate and was retained."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-submit.administrative"
}