"favour" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "favours",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "favour (countable and uncountable, plural favours)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "fa‧vour"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "_dis": "49 51",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I need a favour. Could you lend me £5 until tomorrow, please?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "Can you do me a favour and drop these letters in the post box?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "British standard spelling of favor."
      ],
      "id": "en-favour-en-noun-AS8-UWwy",
      "links": [
        [
          "favor",
          "favor#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "favour"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "favours",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "favouring",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "favoured",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "favoured",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "favour (third-person singular simple present favours, present participle favouring, simple past and past participle favoured)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "fa‧vour"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "49 51",
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest",
          "text": "The departure was not unduly prolonged. In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running. “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1959 April, B. Perren, “The Essex Coast Branches of the Great Eastern Line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 191",
          "text": "Clacton and Walton are resorts mostly favoured by Londoners and only three trains run through to the Midlands and North.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "British standard spelling of favor."
      ],
      "id": "en-favour-en-verb-AS8-UWwy",
      "links": [
        [
          "favor",
          "favor#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "favour"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "favours",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
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      },
      "expansion": "favour (countable and uncountable, plural favours)",
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    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "fa‧vour"
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I need a favour. Could you lend me £5 until tomorrow, please?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "Can you do me a favour and drop these letters in the post box?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "British standard spelling of favor."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "favor",
          "favor#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "favour"
}

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    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "favours",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "favouring",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "favoured",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "favoured",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "favour (third-person singular simple present favours, present participle favouring, simple past and past participle favoured)",
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    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "fa‧vour"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
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        "British English forms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest",
          "text": "The departure was not unduly prolonged. In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running. “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1959 April, B. Perren, “The Essex Coast Branches of the Great Eastern Line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 191",
          "text": "Clacton and Walton are resorts mostly favoured by Londoners and only three trains run through to the Midlands and North.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "British standard spelling of favor."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "favor",
          "favor#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "favour"
}