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pitch in en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive, transitive) To help out; lend assistance; contribute; to do one's part to help.
    • If we all pitch in, we can raise enough money for the renovation of the church.
    • He spent 20 minutes one afternoon describing the club he'd formed with other teenagers in his Brooklyn neighborhood. They'd each pitched in a buck a month to rent the basement of a mallet factory, which they used as a clubhouse. 2008 October, Davy Rothbart, “How I caught up with dad”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 8, →ISSN, page 112:
  2. (intransitive) To begin briskly.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
pitched in Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
pitched in Tense=Past lexicographic
pitching in Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
pitches in Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Relateds

pitch into · do one's bit

Synonyms

chip in · muck in · kick in

Translations (4)

es arrimar el hombro (Translations) · vi góp tay (Translations) · pl dołożyć się (Translations) · pl dokładać się (Translations)