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wear the trousers

verbid 23763·updated Jun 3, 2026
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exercise authority or be in charge

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Classifications

Cognitive

Understand85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Responsibility

Unclassifiedauthoritativetrigger_default_value

Automation

Unclassifiedauthoritativetrigger_default_value

Variants

synonym
call the shots
pasttense
weared the trousers
presentparticiple
wearing the trousers
thirdpersonsingular
wears the trousers
pastparticiple
weared the trousers

Framework definitions

Wordset Dictionary1 senseview framework →
§1
exercise authority or be in charge
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
exercise authority or be in charge
DR-088 backfill from the verb definition column

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