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[bih-hohl-duhn]

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adjective

obligated; indebted: a man beholden to no one.

Origin:
1300–50; Middle English, adj. use of beholden, old past participle of behold

Related forms

un·be·hold·en, adjective

Synonyms
obliged, bound, grateful, liable.

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Beholden to the great man as they often are, their vaulting ambition does not show until they take center stage and become widows.

Universities are beholden to more than one consumer of their product.

Europe's airlines are now largely privately owned, rather than beholden to governments for money to buy new planes.

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Beholden to the great man as they often are, their vaulting ambition does not show until they take center stage and become widows.

Universities are beholden to more than one consumer of their product.

Europe's airlines are now largely privately owned, rather than beholden to governments for money to buy new planes.

These pigs are beholden to nothin nbut the bottom line and their stockholders.

Even local appointments were more beholden to weather and the temperament of one's horse than the accuracy of one's clock.

The whole point of campaign finance reform is that candidates aren't beholden to their donors if they get elected.

The prospect is that any new government, from either side, will be weak and beholden to fractious parties at the extremes.

But developers aren't necessarily beholden to one specific platform.

He was too much of an individualist and inborn skeptic to be beholden to any confining ideology for long.

The cabinet is full of modernisers little beholden to party barons.

She is beholden to the military and cannot risk giving it another grievance.

The right is beholden to his media power, which could be trained mercilessly on any prospective successor.

The newcomer, not beholden to any parochial interests, administered the necessary moves.

The parties remain largely inchoate, the legislators undisciplined and beholden to local rather than national interests.

By calling for closing the loophole, he's demonstrated that he isn't beholden.

It will not be beholden to tiny parties whose only concern is the self-preservation of their bosses.

No longer would the former general be beholden to venal political parties.

She is appointed by the president, and so beholden to him.

But the country's political future remains beholden to the army.

As a result, customers are beholden to suppliers, and innovations go under-exploited.

Those bosses, with their dual role as party bigwigs and chief executives, are beholden to a higher authority than the stockmarket.

The first is that the university is beholden to nobody in its planning.

Our current energy policies, however, are being shaped by those beholden to dirty energy.

Plagued by slumping readership and beholden to high.

In this case, it is the national governments that will pay by being beholden to a software maker.

The highly illogical car market is not only unduly influenced by style, it is also beholden to the vagaries of snob appeal.

But manufacturers aren't beholden to buttonless devices.

Senate candidates have to raise so much money to run that they become beholden to special interests, party members say.

It's important to note that a lot of people are beholden to the old media.

The important thing is to have that person beholden to someone with power to check the natural tendency to get carried away.

Much of the expanding propaganda budget is used to keep small news outlets beholden to the government.

Beholden to the great man as they often are, their.

Government is no smaller-it is simply more debt-ridden and more beholden to wealthy elites.

He believes himself beholden to no one, and he believes himself the leader of a revolution.

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beholden (bɪˈhəʊld^ən)

—*adj*
	indebted; obliged; under a moral obligation

[Old English behealden, past participle of behealdan to behold]

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Word Origin & History

beholden

"under obligation," mid-14c., originally pp. of behold (and preserving the original pp. of hold), but this sense is not recorded among the many and varied senses attested for behold.

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