noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a gesture of goodwill (= something you do to show you want to be helpful )
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As a gesture of goodwill, customers will be offered a full refund.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
gesture
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The visit was a goodwill gesture to Raychem, which employs 1,300 people at its sites in Dorcan and Cheney Manor.
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If this makes you uneasy, think about distributing a little preemptive baksheesh as a goodwill gesture .
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She never repeated the goodwill gesture .
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As a goodwill gesture , Pac Bell sent baskets of fruit to competitors welcoming them to the market.
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Some training is carried out as a goodwill gesture .
■ VERB
depend
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Success in operation will depend on the goodwill of the labour force as there is a collective rather than personal incentive.
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Others hold interests in racetracks, which depend on political goodwill for additional racing dates.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the season of goodwill
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Christmas was coming, the season of goodwill and new bikes, but Henry wasn't looking forward to it at all.
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It's the kind of message that just might, during the season of goodwill, persuade drivers not to drink.
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It was, after all, the season of goodwill or something very close.
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That had always struck me as pretty morbid, but this was the season of goodwill to all men.
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This may be the season of goodwill, but the Imperial Presidency is back with a vengeance.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In the years that followed it expanded operations without seeking local approval, earning little goodwill in Guadalcazar.
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It would be a right insult to them to back off, and as you say, their goodwill could be handy.
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Janis's reaction felt familiar, a form of goodwill Helen knew how to accept.
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Miss Fogerty was humbly grateful for her goodwill , but would never have dreamt of imposing upon it.
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Once again the goodwill is irrelevant to the minority interest.
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U.S. troops arrived to find an enormous reservoir of public goodwill .