beholden to

idiom

formal

: owing a favor or gift to (someone) : having obligations to (someone)

politicians who are beholden to special interest groups

She works for herself, and so is beholden to no one.

Examples of beholden to in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Rather than being beholden to someone else’s platform—like a television network—Cooper has been able to build her own. —Lionel Lim, Fortune, 19 June 2025

Mainstream publishers are often still beholden to the bottom line and have to balance newsworthy stories with content that will attract both readers and advertisers. —David Silverberg, JSTOR Daily, 13 June 2025

If nothing else, Jeremy Clarkson has shown how farmers’ livelihoods are beholden to the vicissitudes of the weather gods. —Jake Kanter, Deadline, 7 June 2025

Josh here — There will always be an agriculture cycle and companies in the agriculture space will always be, to some extent, beholden to it. —Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 5 June 2025

Rhymes for beholden to

• hullabaloo
• accrue
• ado
• ainu
• aircrew
• airscrew
• anew
• askew
• baboo
• babu
• bamboo
• beaucoup