transcription, транскрипция: [ feɪvə(r) ]
( favours, favouring, favoured)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
Note: in AM, use 'favor'
1.
If you regard something or someone with favour , you like or support them.
It remains to be seen if the show will still find favour with a 1990s audience...
No one would look with favour on the continuing military rule...
He has won favour with a wide range of interest groups.
N-UNCOUNT
2.
If you do someone a favour , you do something for them even though you do not have to.
I’ve come to ask you to do me a favour...
N-COUNT
3.
If you favour something, you prefer it to the other choices available.
The French say they favour a transition to democracy...
He favours bringing the UN into touch with ‘modern realities’.
VERB : V n , V -ing
4.
If you favour someone, you treat them better or in a kinder way than you treat other people.
The Government came under fire yesterday for favouring elitist arts groups in the South-east...
VERB : V n
5.
If you are in favour of something, you support it and think that it is a good thing.
I wouldn’t be in favour of income tax cuts...
Yet this is a Government which proclaims that it is all in favour of openness...
The vote passed with 111 in favour and 25 against.
PHRASE : oft v-link PHR , PHR of n
6.
If someone makes a judgment in your favour , they say that you are right about something.
If the commission rules in Mr Welch’s favour the case will go to the European Court of Human Rights.
PHRASE : PHR after v
7.
If something is in your favour , it helps you or gives you an advantage.
Firms are trying to shift the balance of power in the labour market back in their favour.
PHRASE : n PHR , PHR after v , v-link PHR
8.
If one thing is rejected in favour of another, the second thing is done or chosen instead of the first.
The policy was rejected in favour of a more cautious approach.
PHRASE : PHR n , usu PHR after v
9.
If someone or something is in favour , people like or support them. If they are out of favour , people no longer like or support them.
PHRASE : v-link PHR