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.

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Many top donors also bankroll independent political groups like super PACs that aren’t beholden to the FEC’s $6,600-per-person limit for direct campaign donations, which is where Trump has more of a cash advantage. —

Alison Durkee, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024 Harris is of a newer generation of pols, not someone who has been in the public eye in a serious way to the point of saturation or necessarily beholden to decades of promises. —

Philip Elliott, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024 Progressive critics believed this was because Obama’s top appointees, like Larry Summers and Tim Geithner, were too sympathetic to finance and too beholden to the old economic establishment’s thinking. —

Andrew Prokop, Vox, 15 Oct. 2024 For weeks, some 40 million Brazilian X users have been beholden to the whims of Elon Musk and the country’s government. —

Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 27 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for beholden to