# submit (administrative)

to give a document to a human or system that they may act on it

- Computed level: L18 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: everyday  ·  Arena: general

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [give](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-give.transfer), [document](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-document.record), [act](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-act.deed), [human](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-human.person), [system](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-system.organized)

**Through:** 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
- In 2023, a researcher uploaded a preprint to arXiv, assigning it a DOI for peer review. *(computing)*
- A citizen filed Form N-400 with USCIS to begin U.S. naturalization in 2022. *(institutions)*
- During the Apollo 11 mission, Buzz Aldrin submitted a contingency plan to Mission Control after Eagle's descent. *(engineering)*

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-submit.administrative*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-submit.administrative.json*  
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