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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

hitch one's wagon to en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (US, idiomatic, informal) to rely on (someone or something) for success
    • Finally, I wanted to tell a more personal story that might inspire young people considering a life of public service: how my career in politics really started with a search for a place to fit in, a way to explain the different strands of my mixed-up heritage, and how it was only by hitching my wagon to something larger than myself that I was ultimately able to locate a community and purpose for my life. 2020, Barack Obama, “Preface”, in A Promised Land, Crown:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
hitches one's wagon to Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
hitching one's wagon to Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
hitched one's wagon to Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
hitched one's wagon to Tense=Past lexicographic

Deriveds

hitch one's wagon to a star