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to be reckoned with

to be reckoned with phrase: too powerful or important to be ignored.

Phrase

to be reckoned with

  1. Too powerful or important to be ignored.
    • a force to be reckoned with

Origin of to be reckoned with

From reckon with.

Questions about to be reckoned with

What does to be reckoned with mean?
To be reckoned with means too powerful or important to be ignored.
What part of speech is to be reckoned with?
To be reckoned with is a phrase.

Words near to be reckoned with in the dictionary

  1. to be frank
  2. to be going on with
  3. to be honest
  4. to be named later
  5. to be precise
  6. to be reckoned with
  7. to be sure
  8. to be truthful
  9. to beat the band
  10. to begin with
  11. to bits

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