If you are beholden to someone for something, you owe them something in return for favours or services that they have done you: politicians who are beholden to big business. In formal language, if it behoves you to do something, it is your responsibility or duty to do it: it behoves the House to assure itself that there is no conceivable alternative. The form ‘behoven’ created by combining the two words is occasionally used instead of beholden but is not yet acceptable in standard English.
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