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AT ONE'S BECK

Synonyms within Context: AT ONE'S BECK

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Aid

At one's beck, at one's beck and call; friendly, amicable, favorable, propitious, well-disposed; neighborly; obliging; (benevolent).

Obedience

Adjective: obedient; complying, compliant; loyal, faithful, devoted; at one's call, at one's command, at one's orders, at one's beck and call; under beck and call, under control.

Subjection

Adjective: subject, dependent, subordinate; feudal, feudatory; in subjection to, under control; in leading strings, in harness; subjected, enslaved; Verb: constrained; downtrodden; overborne, overwhelmed; under the lash, on the hip, led by the nose, henpecked; the puppet of, the sport of, the plaything of; under one's orders, under one's command, under one's thumb; a slave to; at the mercy of; in the power of, in the hands of, in the clutches of; at the feet of; at one's beck and call; (obedient); liable; parasitical; stipendiary.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Expressions: AT ONE'S BECK

Expressions using "AT ONE'S BECK": at one's beck and call have smb. at one's beck and call. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: AT ONE'S BECK

Language Translations for "AT ONE'S BECK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

faire marcher qn la baguette (have smb. at one's beck and call). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

自家薬 中の物 (at one's beck and call, complete mastery of or over), 薬 中の物 (at one's beck and call, complete mastery of or over). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

やくろうちゅうのもの (at one's beck and call, complete mastery of or over), じかやくろうちゅうのもの (at one's beck and call, complete mastery of or over). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

atay one'say eckbay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: AT ONE'S BECK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "'-a-b-c-e-e-k-n-o-s-t"

-3 letters: acetones, betokens, notecase, steenbok.

-4 letters: absence, acetone, acetose, backset, beacons, beckets, beckons, beknots, betaken, betakes, betoken, boneset, cenotes, cetanes, coatees, ketones, obscene, octanes, setback, tenaces.

-5 letters: absent, ackees, akenes, ascent, atones, bacons, bancos, basket, batons, beacon, beanos, beaten, becket, beckon, beknot, betake, betons, bosket, canoes, cantos, casket, cenote, centas, centos, cetane, coatee, contes.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Expressions
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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