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n. - Someone who performs a service or does a favor.

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  • And will she not think herself the obliged, rather than the obliger?
  • L'arnaque se trouve dans le fait que si vous lisez peu vous vous retrouvez obliger de payer une selection de livres faite par eux.
  • Sir Charles Who that lies under obligations which they cannot return, can view the obliger but with the most delicate sensibility?
  • -- Monsieur, lui répondit le recteur, je suis fâché de ne pouvoir vous obliger davantage, mais nous ne recevons ici que les ânes.
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