Definition of "hinged" []

• Affixed by a hinge, as a door. (adjective)
• Extremely high on drugs. (adjective)
• Affixed with a stamp hinge (adjective)
• Simple past tense and past participle of hinge. (verb)

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• "Bank officials declined to comment on whether Mr. Fischer's acceptance of the new term hinged on the passage of the legislation."
• "The prospects of prevailing upon the Sublime Porte to come to terms hinged upon what those terms were to be, and Constantinople seemed likely to prove a stumbling-block to an understanding."
• "These days he is rarely seen at the bowling crease, and was asked if a Test recall hinged on tightening his batting technique or bowling more to become the batting all-rounder so sought by the selectors."