To be beholden is to be indebted to, or to have a strong obligation to. Someone who is beholden to a debt must pay it back no matter what.
The company is beholden to the government because they owe them money.
The company is beholden to the workers because they agreed to be paid in full.
adjective
under a moral obligation to someone
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He was beholden to the nobles.
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Ostensibly beholden to Furyondy, in practice it was independent.
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The fact is, none of us are beholden to the other.
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I am not beholden to you, but to the authorities, right
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The citta is ultimately not beholden to these laws of conditioned existence.
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But I am strongly beholden to the rules and the rules are not that exclusive.
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Long and short axes are beholden to compliance and applied physics.
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I provide this information as POV and am not beholden to the association.
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We are instead beholden to aiding collaboration and to other editors.
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The results brought in Gonzalez and other new supervisors not beholden to Brown.