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Put someone onto something meaning

Put someone onto something is a phrasal verb that means to introduce someone to a useful person, service, idea, or opportunity.

Past simple
put someone onto something
Past participle
put someone onto something
-ing form
putting someone onto something

What put someone onto something means

B2

To introduce someone to a useful person, service, idea, or opportunity

A colleague put me onto this training course.

Similar phrasal verbs

With put: put on, put up, put off, put back, put away, put down, put out, put together, put in, put across.

With onto: give onto.

Common questions

What does put someone onto something mean?

To introduce someone to a useful person, service, idea, or opportunity.

What is the past tense of put someone onto something?

Put someone onto something, which is also its past participle.

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