oblige someone with something

oblige | American Dictionary

oblige
verb
us/əˈblɑɪdʒ/

obligeverb (FORCE)

[ T ]fml
to force or make it expected for someone to do something:
Circumstances obliged him to leave town.

obligeverb (HELP)

[ I/T ]
to please or help someone, esp. by doing something the person has asked you to do:
[ I ]We needed a guide and he was only too happy to oblige.

obliged

adjectiveus/əˈblɑɪdʒd/
[ + to infinitive ]He was obliged to call the nurse to help him up again.

oblige | Business English

oblige
verb
uk /əˈblaɪdʒ/us
[ T ] LAW
to force someone to do something, or to make it necessary for someone to do something:
be obliged to do sthEmployers are obliged to pay employees sick pay.
Sellers are not legally obliged to accept the highest offer.
Companies are obliged by law to carry out regular safety checks.
a law/treaty/agreement obliges sthThe law obliges full disclosure of political contributions.
[ I or T ]
to please or help someone, especially by doing something they have asked you to do:
He went to the conference to oblige his boss.
We needed some help with our accounts and she was only too happy to oblige.

Examples of oblige

oblige
Fearing disqualification, competing architects feel obliged to keep closely to the brief, and their opportunity to question it is very limited.
Convention and common sense dictated that potential purchasers were obliged to scrutinise the accounts of the target company.
Thus, donors should not resent a lack of giving on behalf of past recipients, nor should recipients feel obliged to return benefits to a donor.
I do wish publishers would stop feeling obliged to make claims which are at best over-ambitious and at worse misleading.
The bill obliges physicians to report euthanasia to the prosecution, while euthanasia itself remains a criminal offence.
The maid was obliging, pointing out the rooms where both men slept.
Only in 1820 were the crown lawyers statutorily obliged to bring a libel information to trial within a year of the filing date.
Such - mostly community-level - organisational structures have also been obliged to develop the capacity to deal with other stakeholders at the local, regional and national level.
Students with grants in such schools were usually obliged to perform services in exchange, such as cleaning.
Consider, for example, the fact that we are all obliged to refrain from picking our respective noses in public places.
Furthermore, there are no term limits and parties are obliged to nominate incumbents desiring re-election regardless of their conduct in office.
I am obliged to walk one mile, but may unselfishly walk a second.
Therefore, for all practical purposes, it must be shown that religion is truth-oriented before we are obliged to examine pro-religious arguments.
Again, being obliged to do it unless and until someone else does it will solve the problem only where there is perfect communication.
Countries with regulations above the minimum standard are not obliged to decrease their standard levels.
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