Unspoken Obligation [on hold]
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The godfather protects your store with the usually unspoken expectation that you owe him some sort of payback, not necessarily money, more like loyalty.
Is there a word for that kind of arrangement?
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The godfather protects your store with the usually unspoken expectation that you owe him some sort of payback, not necessarily money, more like loyalty.
Is there a word for that kind of arrangement?
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You could use fealty, allegiance, maybe even obedience: I think you need to narrow things down somewhat. If you could edit your question to say which words you've considered and rejected, and also to include a fill-in-the-blanks example sentence showing how your word would be used, you'll get much better answers.
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3 hours ago
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The godfather protects your store with the usually unspoken expectation that you owe him some sort of payback, not necessarily money, more like loyalty.
Is there a word for that kind of arrangement?
single-word-requests phrase-requests idiom-requests
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The godfather protects your store with the usually unspoken expectation that you owe him some sort of payback, not necessarily money, more like loyalty.
Is there a word for that kind of arrangement?
single-word-requests phrase-requests idiom-requests
single-word-requests phrase-requests idiom-requests
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edited 4 hours ago
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edited 4 hours ago
tchrist♦
108k28290463
edited 4 hours ago
tchrist♦
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asked 19 hours ago
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asked 19 hours ago
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put on hold as off-topic by Scott, tchrist♦ 3 hours ago
This question appears to be off-topic. The users who voted to close gave this specific reason:
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put on hold as off-topic by Scott, tchrist♦ 3 hours ago
This question appears to be off-topic. The users who voted to close gave this specific reason:
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You could use fealty, allegiance, maybe even obedience: I think you need to narrow things down somewhat. If you could edit your question to say which words you've considered and rejected, and also to include a fill-in-the-blanks example sentence showing how your word would be used, you'll get much better answers.
– tmgr
3 hours ago
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You could use fealty, allegiance, maybe even obedience: I think you need to narrow things down somewhat. If you could edit your question to say which words you've considered and rejected, and also to include a fill-in-the-blanks example sentence showing how your word would be used, you'll get much better answers.
– tmgr
3 hours ago
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You could use fealty, allegiance, maybe even obedience: I think you need to narrow things down somewhat. If you could edit your question to say which words you've considered and rejected, and also to include a fill-in-the-blanks example sentence showing how your word would be used, you'll get much better answers.
– tmgr
3 hours ago
You could use fealty, allegiance, maybe even obedience: I think you need to narrow things down somewhat. If you could edit your question to say which words you've considered and rejected, and also to include a fill-in-the-blanks example sentence showing how your word would be used, you'll get much better answers.
– tmgr
3 hours ago
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You could use fealty, allegiance, maybe even obedience: I think you need to narrow things down somewhat. If you could edit your question to say which words you've considered and rejected, and also to include a fill-in-the-blanks example sentence showing how your word would be used, you'll get much better answers.
– tmgr
3 hours ago