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单词 favor
释义
favor
noun,verb[T]
uk
/ˈfeɪ.vər/us
/ˈfeɪ.vɚ/
USspelling offavour
（favour的美式拼写）
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Backing, supporting & defending
  • adopt
  • advocacy
  • affirmation
  • allyyourselfto/withsomeone
  • argumentation
  • badge
  • bailout
  • bet
  • champion
  • keep the flag flyingidiom
  • patronage
  • recommended
  • red carpet
  • reinforce
  • right behindsomeoneidiom
  • roll out the red carpetidiom
  • root
  • root forsomeone
  • stick together
  • sympathetic
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You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:

Helping and co-operating
Liking more
Unfairness and favouring someone unfairly
Presents and gifts
(Definition offavorfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

favor| American Dictionary

favor
noun
(CdnBrfavour)
us
/ˈfeɪ·vər/

favornoun(SUPPORT)

[U]
approvalorsupportof someone or something:
Inapplyingfor thisjob, Tiffany has a lotinherfavor(= to heradvantage).
Thecitycouncilvotedin favor of(= insupportof)theproposedhousingdevelopment.

favornoun(HELPFUL ACT)

[C]
something you do tohelpsomeone, often after beingaskedto:
Will you do me a favor andturntheovenon at four o’clock?

favornoun(PRESENT)

[C]
asmallpresentgiven toguestsat aparty:
partyfavors
favor
verb[T]
(CdnBrfavour)
us
/ˈfeɪ·vər/
tosupportorpreferoneparticularpossibility:
Democrats favored atemporaryincreasein thestatesalestax.
(Definition offavorfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffavor

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In doing so, the agent should retain more preferred beliefs infavorof less preferred ones wherever coherence permits.
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Because of qualitative differences observed between behaviors apparently shared by the two populations, wefavorthis second interpretation.
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Correspondingly, adult subjects do notfavorthe correct parabolic trajectory over other paths.
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There are and always will be "schools of thought" thatfavorone or more interpretive themes over competitors.
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Most of the research reviewed in the preceding nine categories tends tofavorthe 2-gen over the 1-gen model.
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The "ethnographic approach" that the authors favored will not provide sufficient evidence to claim the presence of culture.
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Such tasks wouldfavorspecialization of each hand, with prolonged practice leading to increased differences between the hands.
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They favored the creation of strong central bureaucratic authorities to ensure that the new agglomerations of private power operated ultimately in the public interest.
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Timely responses from the state, which favored large producers, never came.
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Researchers, for instance, can help shape results by anticipating preferred outcomes and subtly providing conditions thatfavortheir development.
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The height difference is a response to the principle of snterest which favors maximum perceptual differentiation between the stressed vowels.
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However, surgery directed to the treatment of the failing systemic ventricle should be abandoned infavorof heart transplantation.
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Within agriculture, persistent labor abundance has favored annual crops, which are relatively labor intensive, and vegetables in particular.
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As was the case with scientific management, defenders of behavioral psychology made ethical claims, as well as truth claims, in itsfavor.
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Given the constant menace of enemies within and without, concealment, deception, and the ability to generate and recognize false beliefs in others wouldfavorsurvival.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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