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wear the trousers

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exercise authority or be in charge

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Cognitive

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

Responsibility

Unclassifiedauthoritativetrigger_default_value

Automation

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Variants

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

Framework definitions

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exercise authority or be in charge

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