muscle in en · VERB
Meanings
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(intransitive) To interfere, or intrude forcibly.
The Government's £500 million Restoring Your Railway initiative - awarding small grants to put back lines that should never have been closed - has turned into a muddle because backers of multi-million pound projects have also muscled in.
2021 May 5, Howard Johnston, “Restoring your railway... or just window dressing?”, in RAIL, number 930, page 32:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| muscling in | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| muscled in | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| muscled in | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| muscles in | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |
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Translations (1)
de mitmischen (muscle in)