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• v  force somebody to do something
• v  bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted
• v  provide a service or favor for someone
• s  showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others
  the obliging waiter was in no hurry for us to leave

• Perhaps he was obliging the studio's demand for happy endings.
• Reed, a key Bush campaign strategist and the favorite in the 2006 race to become Lieutenant Governor of Georgia, was an obliging, even eager middleman, judging by e-mail exchanges .
• What we always sense about the Wise Guy is that he's essentially a Sweet Guy, eager to learn, eager to please, eager to be heroically helpful and romantically obliging.

• compel
• oblige
• obligate
• bind
• hold
• accommodate
• complaisant

• disoblige

News & Articles

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• “We hack everyone everywhere”—What the NSA whistleblower reveals about the agency’s activities abroad
  In America there have been howls of outrage at news that the US National Security Agency may have been digitally eavesdropping on Americans—obliging James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence, ...
  June 10, 2013 - Quartz via Yahoo! Finance
• When Market Incentives Undermine Morality
  The Greek philosophers were not entirely wrong about markets. When they reward cooperation, people become more obliging and virtuous -- but markets don’t always reward it. Though on balance they have greatly improved our moral behavior, they can also degrade it.
  June 9, 2013 - Bloomberg

Quotes

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• Gary Kirsten in Sydney Morning Herald
  They have offered me the job,Kirsten told Reuters. "I asked them for some time to consider it and they were very obliging, but it's an extremely exciting prospect and, provided a few details can be worked out, I'm looking forward to the...
• Mahmoud Abbas in AFP
  Abbas told Abdullah that "the United States must step in and put pressure on Israel, obliging it to comply with the terms of reference of the peace process, namely the (internationally drafted) roadmap, the Arab peace initiative and UN...
• Peter Mandelson in Euro2day
  We should be positive, not paranoid, about the operations of sovereign wealth funds,Mr Mandelson said. "If the funds refuse to accept a voluntary code of conduct, pressure may grow for laws obliging them, at the least, to disclose their...