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| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
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. |
| 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 | ||||
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Expressions 2. Translations: Modern 3. Anagrams 4. Bibliography |
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