I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
find in sb’s favour
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The tribunal found in favour of the defendant.
owed...a favour
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He asked for help from a colleague who owed him a favour .
prefer/favour an approach
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I prefer a traditional approach.
return the favour (= help someone who helped you )
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Thanks a lot. I hope I'll be able to return the favour.
tip the balance in favour of
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Three factors helped to tip the balance in favour of the Labour leadership.
weighted in favour of sb/sth
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This year’s pay increase is heavily weighted in favour of the lower paid staff.
work in...favour (= help them )
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The French team are the heavier crew, which should work in their favour .
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■ ADJECTIVE
big
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He's trying everything, in the face of having to ask Yeb a big favour .
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A solicitor friend of his who came on one of the shoots did a big favour for one of the beaters.
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Villa were worth a point, but they will receive no bigger favour than the one at Maine Road.
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But you must be very busy and I came here to ask a favour , a big favour.
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Look, Mattie. Big favour time.
great
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It was a great mark of favour .
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The homework lessons he'd brought with him didn't find a great deal of favour in her eyes.
royal
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The ones who fail vanish from royal favour as quickly as the Highland mists come and go.
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The latter policy could also entail a drastic withdrawal of royal favour from those who did not fit into Edward's plans.
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Booksellers could translate the royal favour into profit for themselves.
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But at least the people of Limoges had been reminded that royal favour and displeasure were worthy of consideration.
special
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Instead he took care to spread his special favour among several men.
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And as a special favour , she believed, they were allowed to leave their top button unfastened.
■ VERB
ask
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And I have to ask you a favour .
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I ask only one favour: please bring me a pound's worth of silver from the Swan's cash register.
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He's trying everything, in the face of having to ask Yeb a big favour .
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One was dearly asking some favour on behalf of a client: bail or a visitor's pass or access to official files.
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The chief purpose of this letter is actually to ask you a favour .
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If you are asking a favour you must be polite.
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But you must be very busy and I came here to ask a favour , a big favour.
find
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It found little favour in the United States, where there was however considerable interest in securing some workable arrangement.
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Perhaps predictably, the proposals have not found favour with Gloucestershire County Council.
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Mosley resigned in May 1930, when these schemes did not find favour in government circles.
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Kureishi is pleased by the comparison, as he says Seth's haughty looks find favour with women.
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Porta caval shunt operations have not found favour in recent years because of the increased incidence of postoperative hepatic encephalopathy.
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Now he hopes to find the same favour in the eyes of his brother.
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She would find he wanted a favour in return, too.
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It is only fair to add that this kind of language finds less favour with some modern experimenters.
gain
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And its velvety touch was perversely sensuous although, fortunately for Creed, not quite enough to gain his favour .
owe
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He asked a policeman who owed him a favour that he wanted no-one to know about.
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And he owed Duncan a favour , not once but many times over.
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He had, now, friends in many places, or people who owed him a favour .
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I owe him a favour , so I couldn't say no.
regard
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Before this, the regime was not regarded with favour by many of the major donor agencies in the West.
return
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And now Curval was returning the favour .
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A possible response to receiving a benefit is to cheat; to fail to return the favour .
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Few of the boys talked to him, except to goad him, and he returned the favour .
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It would seem only fair that he should return the favour later.
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Now he wanted me to return the favour .
win
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The child must know how to win back the favour of its parents.
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Medicine it was that often won them the favour of princes and enabled them to earn a living.
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Ermold wrote his verse biography of Louis to win back imperial favour .
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This disc is being sold in Britain, but it seems unlikely to win favour amongst large microcomputer manufacturers.
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It has won favour with both young and old who voted it tops in a poll of 1,051 people.
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He has won favour with a wide range of interest groups.
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If the Socialists are tactful and want to win favour with the centre-right, there will be no clean-out in June.
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As this view wins general favour , the elder is denounced and discredited.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be thankful/grateful for small mercies/favours
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From now on she could be grateful for small mercies and be content to take one step at a time.
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She wondered wryly whether to be thankful for small mercies, or to feel insulted.
curry favour (with sb)
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But only Damian Kelly emerged as some one who curried favour on the terraces.
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Such is the case with, for example, foot the bill and curry favour.
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Wants to be liked and likes to hang around and curry favour with teacher.
fall from grace/favour
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And its spectacular fall from grace should serve as a warning.
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As she descended the stairs, she appreciated for the first time how far she had fallen from grace.
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Daniel prefaces his interpretation with a review of Nebuchadnezzar's prideful fall from grace and Beishazzar's own lack of humility.
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He had an uncharacteristic fall from grace in his match against Connell.
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It was a spectacular fall from grace that took them all down-a major public humiliation.
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Now, as Pope fell from grace, McClellan came to the fore again.
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The competition was soon simplified with the fall from grace of William Craig.
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With the smallest fall from grace, it is quickly turned into badness.
find favour (with sb/sth)
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In this example it is difficult to know which of these arguments would find favour with a court.
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Kureishi is pleased by the comparison, as he says Seth's haughty looks find favour with women.
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Mosley resigned in May 1930, when these schemes did not find favour in government circles.
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Of course anything as scientific as a mechanical test has not always found favour with traditional craftsmen or indeed with business men.
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Official materials and guidelines do not always find favour with parents and governors.
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Perhaps predictably, the proposals have not found favour with Gloucestershire County Council.
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Porta caval shunt operations have not found favour in recent years because of the increased incidence of postoperative hepatic encephalopathy.
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The argument which has found favour in certain of the authorities runs as follows.
without fear or favour
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He had some home truths to impart and presented them without fear or favour.
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Now near retirement after a long career in product development, Mr Dulude can presumably act without fear or favour.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Booksellers could translate the royal favour into profit for themselves.
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If the White armies could claim it, the Civil War might go in their favour .
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Medicine it was that often won them the favour of princes and enabled them to earn a living.
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The banks have done developers one favour by staying in Frankfurt rather than heading for Berlin.
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The only point in its favour is that it contains nothing that is toxic.
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The sky was a sharp blue, the air bright, and the wind in our favour .
II. verb
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■ ADVERB
particularly
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This is the approach particularly favoured by Mumford, although it is not always appropriate.
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The hazel coppices are particularly favoured by the large Sussex Nightingale population.
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The latter was particularly favoured as a strategy for dealing with children with special needs.
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Early indications are that Britain's system X, which Telecom is gradually introducing is not particularly favoured .
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Those of Venice were particularly favoured in this way.
strongly
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Sub-regional specialties were strongly favoured by professional care staff if not by members or managers within the authorities.
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Ben Gurion had strongly favoured Abdallah's support of partition in 1937.
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They strongly favour the verbal media, namely, telephone calls and meetings.
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Liberal opinion strongly favoured its reversal.
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Any adaptation in a male which enables him to copulate with more females will be strongly favoured by natural selection.
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It strongly favours reform of the electoral system.
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Brown's reforms strongly favour low-income groups.
■ NOUN
development
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The coastal towns are expanding in their hinterlands rather than along the waterfront, and disused industrial areas are favoured for development .
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Here selection has favoured display developments that make the birds look not fearsome but disabled.
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MacArthur was dedicated to the extirpation of militarism and did not favour the development of defence forces.
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It is understood the rugby club favours the development which could net £5m.
idea
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Women in the labour movement also tended to favour the idea of a family wage.
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Recent evidence favours the idea that inflammatory bowel disease may be caused by mesenteric vasculitis.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be thankful/grateful for small mercies/favours
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From now on she could be grateful for small mercies and be content to take one step at a time.
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She wondered wryly whether to be thankful for small mercies, or to feel insulted.
without fear or favour
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He had some home truths to impart and presented them without fear or favour.
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Now near retirement after a long career in product development, Mr Dulude can presumably act without fear or favour.
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In the 1930s the Bauhaus school tended to favour a technological approach to art.
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Many teachers favour boys, often without even realizing it.
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The weather favours the Australians, who are used to playing in the heat.
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Both groups favour investment in energy efficiency and renewable energy sources.
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Eliminating discrimination against women is another way of saying eliminating discrimination that favours men.
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Hospitals might be privatised or turned into voluntary hospitals, as the Conservatives had favoured before 1946.
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It had not been her intention to favour him with a compliment.
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Natural selection favours those genes that manipulate the world to ensure their own propagation.
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So far from allowing that number might increase, in 1769 he even favoured a reduction of the number of the enfranchised.
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Unix Labs favours a meeting of the parties, planned for Thursday March 18.