Meaning of Favour | Babel Free

Definitions

1. British standard spelling of favor.
   countable, uncountable
2. Give help, help or protect, cater an advantage, favour or profit, answer to a need of somebody.
3. Any funny profit that does to one, although it was of the same to equal.
4. Give support or be in favour of something.
5. Do see better, give appearance or appearance more pleasant.

Equivalents

Examples

“I need a favour. Could you lend me £5 until tomorrow, please?”

“Can you do me a favour and drop these letters in the post box?”

“Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia.”

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