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