Biddable - English meaning

adjective

Open and responsive to suggestion; easily persuaded or controlled.

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Parents who have amenable children

adjective

Willing to please others or to accept what they do or say without protest.

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There are too many complaisant doctors signing sick notes

adjective

Willing to satisfy others by being polite and fitting in with their plans

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She carried on passionate love affairs with the consent of her complaisant husband., his comment we…

adjective

Disposed to agree with others or obey rules, especially to an excessive degree; acquiescent.

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A compliant labour force

adjective

Used to describe someone or something that obeys particular rules or laws

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Compliant with sth the company expects to be reclassified as soon as its factories are fully compli…

adjective

Involving mutual assistance in working towards a common goal.

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Every member has clearly defined tasks in a cooperative enterprise

noun

A farm, business, or other organization which is owned and run jointly by its members, who share the profits or benefits.

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We run the agency as a workers' cooperative

adjective

Ready to accept control or instruction; submissive.

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A cheap and docile workforce

adjective

Calm in manner and easy to control

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They have a big dog, but he’s real friendly and docile.

adjective

Conscientiously or obediently fulfilling one's duty.

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A dutiful daughter

adjective

(of a person) obedient or (of an action) done because it is necessary or expected

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A dutiful child

adjective

(of a metal or other material) able to be hammered or pressed into shape without breaking or cracking.

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A malleable metal can be beaten into a sheet

adjective

Easily influenced, trained, or controlled

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Mother wanted me to be a malleable girl who would take her advice.

adjective

Easily controlled to your advantage, often unfairly or dishonestly

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Teenagers mostly thought that fathers were considerably less manipulable than mothers., he saw in t…

adjective

Quiet, gentle, and easily imposed on; submissive.

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She brought her meek little husband along

adjective

Quiet and unwilling to disagree or fight or to strongly support personal ideas and opinions

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He’s slight, meek, and balding, and hardly heroic., jennifer meekly suggested that maybe it won't h…

adjective

Complying or willing to comply with an order or request; submissive to another's authority.

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A docile and obedient dog

adjective

Doing or willing to do what you have been asked or ordered to do by someone in authority

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An obedient child, she demands absolute obedience to the rules.

adjective

Accepting or allowing what happens or what others do, without active response or resistance.

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The women were portrayed as passive victims

noun

Denoting a voice of verbs in which the subject undergoes the action of the verb (e.g. they were killed as opposed to the active form he killed them ).

Lacking in energy or will

adjective

Easily persuaded; amenable.

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They need to identify the most persuadable voters

adjective

If someone is persuadable, it is possible to make them do or believe something by giving them a good reason to do it, or by talking to them and making them believe it

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After a cup of coffee and a slice of cake, she became more persuadable., i asked my parents if they…

adjective

Easily bent; flexible.

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Quality leather is pliable and will not crack

adjective

Easily bent.

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Pliant willow stems

adjective

Pliant people are easily influenced or controlled by other people

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I don't think it's a good thing for children to be too pliant., the management has adopted a more p…

adjective

Ready to conform to the authority or will of others; meekly obedient or passive.

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A submissive, almost sheeplike people

adjective

(of a person) easy to control or influence.

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She has always been tractable and obedient, even as a child

adjective

Easily dealt with, controlled, or persuaded

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The problem turned out to be less tractable than i had expected.

adjective

Not showing, producing, or putting up any resistance.

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She took the box from his unresisting hand