See carry one's weight in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "carries one's weight",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "carrying one's weight",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "carried one's weight",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "carried one's weight",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "*"
},
"expansion": "carry one's weight (third-person singular simple present carries one's weight, present participle carrying one's weight, simple past and past participle carried one's weight)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Polish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "I think our jobs here are secure as long as we each carry our weight.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To contribute or produce one's fair share, as of work, money, etc."
],
"id": "en-carry_one's_weight-en-verb-otaQjB3j",
"links": [
[
"contribute",
"contribute"
],
[
"produce",
"produce"
],
[
"fair",
"fair"
],
[
"share",
"share"
],
[
"work",
"work"
],
[
"money",
"money"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) To contribute or produce one's fair share, as of work, money, etc."
],
"related": [
{
"word": "do one's bit"
},
{
"word": "earn one's keep"
},
{
"word": "heavy lifting"
},
{
"word": "pitch in"
},
{
"word": "throw one's weight around"
},
{
"word": "dead weight"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "pull one's weight"
}
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to contribute or produce one's fair share, as of work, money, etc.",
"word": "kantaa oma taakkansa"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to contribute or produce one's fair share, as of work, money, etc.",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "przykładać się"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to contribute or produce one's fair share, as of work, money, etc.",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "przyłożyć się"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "en-au-carry one's weight.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5c/En-au-carry_one%27s_weight.ogg/En-au-carry_one%27s_weight.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/En-au-carry_one%27s_weight.ogg"
}
],
"word": "carry one's weight"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "carries one's weight",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "carrying one's weight",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "carried one's weight",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "carried one's weight",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "*"
},
"expansion": "carry one's weight (third-person singular simple present carries one's weight, present participle carrying one's weight, simple past and past participle carried one's weight)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "do one's bit"
},
{
"word": "earn one's keep"
},
{
"word": "heavy lifting"
},
{
"word": "pitch in"
},
{
"word": "throw one's weight around"
},
{
"word": "dead weight"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English idioms",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English terms with usage examples",
"English verbs",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with Polish translations"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "I think our jobs here are secure as long as we each carry our weight.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To contribute or produce one's fair share, as of work, money, etc."
],
"links": [
[
"contribute",
"contribute"
],
[
"produce",
"produce"
],
[
"fair",
"fair"
],
[
"share",
"share"
],
[
"work",
"work"
],
[
"money",
"money"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) To contribute or produce one's fair share, as of work, money, etc."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "pull one's weight"
}
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "en-au-carry one's weight.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5c/En-au-carry_one%27s_weight.ogg/En-au-carry_one%27s_weight.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/En-au-carry_one%27s_weight.ogg"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to contribute or produce one's fair share, as of work, money, etc.",
"word": "kantaa oma taakkansa"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to contribute or produce one's fair share, as of work, money, etc.",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "przykładać się"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to contribute or produce one's fair share, as of work, money, etc.",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "przyłożyć się"
}
],
"word": "carry one's weight"
}
Download raw JSONL data for carry one's weight meaning in English (2.4kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (9a96ef4 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.