favouring
present participle offavour
| 单词 | favouring |
| 释义 | favouring present participle offavour favour verb[T] UK(USfavor)uk/ˈfeɪ.vər/us/ˈfeɪ.vɚ/tosupportorpreferoneparticularpossibility: These are therunningshoesfavoured bymarathonrunners. In thesurvey, amajorityofpeoplefavouredhighertaxesandbetterpublicservicesover(=ratherthan)taxcuts. [+ -ing verb]Igenerallyfavour travellingbynight, when theroadsarequiet. to give anadvantageto someone or something, in anunfairway: Astrongwindwill favour thebiggerboats. She alwaysfeltthat herparentsfavoured herbrother.
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You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Backing, supporting & defending Unfairness and favouring someone unfairly Phrasal verbfavoursomeonewithsomething Examplesoffavouringfavouring In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. In this article, rather thanfavouringone type of indicator above another, we have used a combination of both monetary and non-monetary indicators. From theCambridge English Corpus This wide distribution of strains can be explained by the world's population mobilityfavouringthe spread of different parasite strains. From theCambridge English Corpus This study highlights the importance of poor drainage which has two important consequencesfavouringuprooting. From theCambridge English Corpus This situation was unlikely to be repeated, and made a similar political atmospherefavouringfrank discussion highly unlikely. From theCambridge English Corpus He focuses on congressional passivity, excessive party discipline, presidential decree powers, and corporatist arrangementsfavouringpeak organisations at the expense of pluralist representation. From theCambridge English Corpus Because the complementary strands are physically retained in proximity, the chains do not diffuse apart,favouringreassociation. From theCambridge English Corpus Reproductive recovery is presumed to provide the selective pressurefavouringevolution of a lethal host response. From theCambridge English Corpus The constraints produce this generalisation by cumulativelyfavouringhigher-sonority stressed vowels over lower-sonority ones. From theCambridge English Corpus A research biasfavouringcertain helminth groups over others has been suspected before. From theCambridge English Corpus Thus, cattle could befavouringthe presence of species which take advantage of these animals to disperse their seeds. From theCambridge English Corpus Many of the foodstuffs consumed were made by hand,favouringtransmission from the index case to the cafeteria users. From theCambridge English Corpus Still, cohering with our tangled moral intuitions might not be sufficient justification forfavouringdisjunctivism. From theCambridge English Corpus The economic niche for medic pasture has been limited by (1) low farm wagesfavouringlabour-intensive high-value crops and (2) price subsidies for wheat. From theCambridge English Corpus Priming does not change the repertoire; rather, it promotes alignment byfavouringone particular model and its associated referring expressions. From theCambridge English Corpus Both were within the tradition of loyal opposition,favouringchange within the existing system. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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