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obligated

obligated \obligated\ adj.

  1. under a moral obligation to someone.

    Syn: beholden(predicate).

  2. under a legal obligation to someone.

    Syn: indebted.

  3. owing gratitude or recognition to another for help or favors etc. Opposite of unobligated. [Narrower terms: {supposed(predicate), required ]

    Syn: indebted.

Wiktionary
obligated
  1. 1 (context North America Scottish English) committed 2 (context North America Scottish English) having an obligation; obliged v

  2. (en-past of: obligate)

WordNet
obligated

adj. caused by law or conscience to follow a certain course; "felt obligated to repay the kindness"; "was obligated to pay off the student loan" [syn: obligated(p)] [ant: unobligated]

Usage examples of "obligated".

I will be interested to hear how that sits with the testimony of some of those artisans formerly obligated to you, who have been finding surprising conditions attached to your so-called gifts.

I remain confident that we could repulse an attack, but I am obligated to report that they are learning slowly how to dupe our dovin basals and frustrate our weapons.

Ostermeyers have bought Datepalm, as I told you, and I am obligated to them, and loyalty to them comes first.

Gunny Readyknob and the other Foragers stressed that Alacrity and Floyt were obligated to let the Sockwallets know to whom they owed revenge.

Because we previously envisioned all matter particles and all force particles to be pointlike objects with literally no spatial extent, we were obligated to consider properties of the universe on arbitrarily short distance scales.

Regardless of how they might respond personally to Cheela Hwang's request they were obligated to return home if only to convey news of their survival.

That creepy guy Ross was standing off to the side, looking like he was about to be jumped or something, and if he didn't have to go with his kid , then Bennett didn't see why she should feel obligated to go with hers.

Judged by the number of knights that royal vassals were obligated to provide at the King’s sum­mons, Coucy at this time was the leading untitled barony of the realm, ranking immediately behind the great dukedoms and counties which, except for homage owed to the French King, were virtually indepen­dent lordships.

Hackworth wondered if he was somehow obligated to read thisBut soon the torches turned away from him, as more audiencebegan to rain down through the astral plane of theWatching them fall, Hackworth realized that he'd seenlike it before at amusement parks: This was nothing morebungee-jumping.

Rydell said to this unknown Czech, hitching up the neon-pink Lucky Dragon fanny pack he was contractually obligated to wear on duty.

Fulbright was from Fayetteville, and most of my friends, though they liked Bumpers, felt obligated to help the senator in what was sure to be an all-uphill battle.

Now, in the Interlibrary Loan office, Randy had not just one but several staple removers in his desk drawer and was actually obligated to use them for an hour or two a day.

But if the market takes a nose dive and the contract is assigned, as it was during the night by some astute overseas investor, Lake was obligated to sell his stocks at low prices or obligated to buy stocks with cash he did not have.

Even if a consortium of some sort arranges an agreement on formats, the only people who will be obligated by it are those that signed on the dotted line and took the investment money.

Belgium was obligated, as well as her guarantors, to preserve her own neutrality and could make no overt act until one was made against her.