Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Owing something, such as gratitude, to another; indebted.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Obliged; bound in gratitude; indebted; held by obligation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Obliged; bound in gratitude; indebted.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Obligated to
provide ,display , or do something for another;bound bymoral obligation;indebted ;obliged .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective under a moral obligation to someone
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Until these issues are addressed, the U.S. economy will remain beholden to Wall Street's bonus-crazed whims.
Zach Carter: Crony Capitalism: Wall Street's Favorite Politicians Zach Carter 2010
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Until these issues are addressed, the U.S. economy will remain beholden to Wall Street's bonus-crazed whims.
Zach Carter: Crony Capitalism: Wall Street's Favorite Politicians Zach Carter 2010
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Until these issues are addressed, the U.S. economy will remain beholden to Wall Street's bonus-crazed whims.
Zach Carter: Crony Capitalism: Wall Street's Favorite Politicians Zach Carter 2010
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Until these issues are addressed, the U.S. economy will remain beholden to Wall Street's bonus-crazed whims.
Zach Carter: Crony Capitalism: Wall Street's Favorite Politicians Zach Carter 2010
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Until these issues are addressed, the U.S. economy will remain beholden to Wall Street's bonus-crazed whims.
Zach Carter: Crony Capitalism: Wall Street's Favorite Politicians Zach Carter 2010
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As of Boxing Day, more than 100,000 people had signed up online for his campaign to fill India's jails with protestors who feel that a bill currently before Parliament will create a toothless ombudsman or lokpal in Hindi beholden to the very politicians it's meant to police.
Delhi's Year of Drama and Stasis Sadanand Dhume 2011
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So, in a sentence like: 'Me and Jenny went to the market', technically you wouldn't have to say 'Jenny and I went to the market', as is common prescriptive usage, because the 'and' forms a compound subject phrase beholden only to itself.
Hopefully... 2009
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URBN, the parent company behind Urban Outfitters, Free People and Anthropologie, launched the new range - bhldn, pronounced "beholden" - this week.
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He is still as "beholden" as if he had taken it from a lobbyist.
Hillary: Obama Camp Tells Americans One Thing, Foreigners Another 2009
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If you go back and read my sentence, "So, why do you think we need an intervenor [sic] like the U.N. in order to speak or be" beholden "to humankind," you'll note that your concept of appeal would flow like this: U.S.
OpEdNews - Diary: THE CITY OF BERKELEY VS THE WAR MACHINE 2008
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