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beholden

/bih-hohl-duhn/US // bɪˈhoʊl dən //UK // (bɪˈhəʊldən) //

受托人,受委托人,听命于人,受托管理人

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : obligated; indebted: a man beholden to no one.

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Examples

  • The delivery space is definitely beholden to the same regulations that are very prevalent in the alcohol beverage industry.

  • You’re beholden to wherever someone says you can go and how you can go and et cetera.

  • While investors in global portfolios of shares are looking at returns over many years, governments are restricted to elected terms of office and beholden to electorates.

  • The Capitol Police, in particular, were shielded from the scrutiny of public information laws thanks to its special status as beholden to Congress rather than to the larger public.

  • Governments are beholden to the public, not the bottom line.

  • Accusing his opponents of being locked in a Cold War mind-set, it is Stone who is beholden to old orthodoxies.

  • Huckabee is also not burdened by, or beholden to, foreign investors.

  • As a company that is beholden to stockholders, Kate Spade usually lags, not leads trends.

  • Its members would not be beholden to any special interest groups, at all, for their selection.

  • Beholden to a base that, like a capricious autocrat, will turn against them at the slightest provocation.

  • We are not beholden to, thee for anything, for thy debt is paid to thee to the full; which methinks were very bold words.

  • Maybe that was why—though he may not have admitted it to himself—he could not bear to be beholden to her when his ruin came.

  • These confederates of his had one thing in common, however; all of them were beholden to Raymond Latour.

  • Because,” said I, “it is not proper that I be beholden to you for meat and drink.

  • We and the Surgeons are more beholden to Women than all the Professions besides.