Favored

Word FAVORED
Character 7
Hyphenation fa vored
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Definitions and meanings of "Favored"

What do we mean by favored?

Treated or thought of with great kindness or partiality. adjective

Endowed with special gifts, talents, or advantages. adjective

Having an appearance of a specified kind. Often used in combination. adjective

Featured; looking, etc.: in compounds or phrases: as, a hard-favored man; he is well favored.

Adorned with a favor; wearing a favor: usually in compounds.

In organic chemistry, noting that configuration of the atoms or radicals in a compound in which the atoms which have an attraction for each other are brought as close together as possible.

Countenanced; aided; regarded with kindness. adjective

Having a certain favor or appearance; featured adjective

Alternative form of favoured. adjective

Simple past tense and past participle of favor. verb

Preferred above all others and treated with partiality adjective

To look upon fondly; to prefer.

To encourage, conduce to

To do a favor [noun sense 1] for; to show beneficence toward.

To treat with care.

(including) To resemble, to look like (another person).

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The word "favored" in example sentences

Instead, it urges "flexicurity," a term favored by EU institutions to describe policies that mix liberalized labor markets with the promise of ample unemployment benefits and retraining for workers who get fired. ❋ Matthew Dalton (2011)

The figures released by the central bank this week showed that by the middle of this year, 17 percent of Spanish bank loans to construction companies and real estate developers were troubled - or "doubtful," the term favored by the central bank. ❋ By FLOYD NORRIS (2011)

If "contagion," the term favored by policy analysts, spreads widely, governments are going to have trouble borrowing money and repaying their debts; if governments have trouble repaying their debts, the institutions that own those debts-the already stretched European banks-are in serious difficulty. ❋ John Lanchester (2011)

Myanmar is also known as Burma, a term favored by exiles and dissidents including Suu Kyi. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Yet the security gains are "fragile and reversible," to use the phrase favored by U.S. military officials. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Of the two, by the way, Wealth of Nations takes the dimmer view of merchantsparadoxically, since this is the title favored by free-enterprise types. ❋ Michael Kinsley With Conor Clarke (2009)

"Horse blanket" is the term favored by beer cognoscenti. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Col. Kolenda chose the term favored by the Pakistanis: "We get lots of reports of miscreant activities," he said. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The overall situation in matters of abstraction is triadic (to use the term favored by C.S. Peirce). ❋ Rescher, Nicholas (2008)

It is common to describe this as "symbol manipulation" or, to use the term favored by Hofstadter and Dennett, the whole system is a "self-updating representational system"; but these terms are at least a bit misleading since as far as the computer is concerned the symbols don't symbolize anything or represent anything. ❋ Searle, John R. (1982)

"Therefore the sanctions have to be intensified, quick, determined ... and therefore everyone is saying that no option should be taken off the table," Barak added, using a phrase favored by Israel and the United States to show they consider military strikes on Iran's nuclear sites a last-ditch option. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The term favored in Jacksonian Democracy was "yeoman", which emphasized an independent political spirit and economic self-reliance. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Even now, there are many people who think that our country's aggression caused unbearable suffering to the countries of Asia during the Greater East Asia War," he wrote, using the term favored by Japan's right to refer to World War II. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A chapter in my book Democracy Under Assault is titled"Survival-of-the-Fittest Capitalism: The Privileged vs. the 'Undeserving Underclass'" -- a term favored by the right. ❋ Michele Swenson (2010)

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