0 present participle of hitch
1 to get a free ride in someone else's vehicle as a way of travelling:
2 to fasten something to another thing by tying it with a rope or using a metal hook:
Yet the merchants were essential in the effort to reform local economies by hitching them to the colonial market - and to the body of corporate nations beyond.
Of course, by hitching ourselves to the deutschmark, we are hitching ourselves to something that is unpredictable.
He also made some remarks about hitching my wagon to a star.
Let the registrar who did the hitching do the unhitching.
Another scenario is of people hitching a lift and declaring that they will be seeking asylum, but not doing so immediately and disappearing underground.
It seems to some of us to be about as appropriate as a healthy person hitching a lift in an ambulance.
What has happened is not only a question of putting the cart before the horse but of hitching the horse back to front even in that unusual position.
If free trade is the virtue that he describes, there would be no harm in hitching ourselves to such a rapidly growing market and major industrial power.
