"in favor of" meaning in English

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Preposition

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  1. For; in support of; approving, supporting. Tags: US Synonyms: all for, pro, in favour of Related terms: in favor with Translations (in support of): a favor de (Catalan), 贊成 (Chinese Mandarin), 赞成 (zànchéng) (english: be in favor of ...) (Chinese Mandarin), 支持 (zhīchí) (english: be in favor of ...) (Chinese Mandarin), ten gunste van (Dutch), ten faveure van (Dutch), puolesta (Finnish), en faveur de (French), zugunsten (German), ...賛成して (...sansei shite) (alt: ...さんせいして) (Japanese), ...の賛成で (... no sansei de) (alt: ...のさんせいで) (Japanese), за (za) (Macedonian), അനുകൂലമായി (anukūlamāyi) (Malayalam), za (Polish), a favor de (Portuguese), în favoarea (Romanian), în avantajul (Romanian), в по́льзу (v pólʹzu) [with-genitive] (Russian), за (za) [with-accusative] (Russian), во бла́го (vo blágo) (Russian), ра́ди (rádi) (Russian), в интере́сах (v interésax) (Russian), у корист [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), u korist [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), a favor de (Spanish), för (Swedish), leh (Turkish), yan (Turkish), ủng hộ (Vietnamese), thuận (Vietnamese)
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  2. For the benefit of; to the order of. Tags: US Translations (for the benefit of): ten gunste van (Dutch), en faveur de (French), a prol de (Galician), zugunsten (German), in favore di (Italian), na korzyść (Polish), na rzecz (Polish), em prol de (Portuguese), в по́льзу (v pólʹzu) [with-genitive] (Russian), en apoyo de (Spanish), för (Swedish), cho (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-in_favor_of-en-prep-gMNhcn47 Disambiguation of 'for the benefit of': 0 100 0
  3. Out of preference for. Tags: US Synonyms: in something's favor Translations (out of preference for): na rzecz (Polish), в по́льзу (v pólʹzu) [with-genitive] (Russian), en favor de (Spanish), för (Swedish)
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Alternative forms

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      "sense": "in support of",
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      "code": "vi",
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      "sense": "in support of",
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "for the benefit of",
      "word": "in favore di"
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      "code": "pl",
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      "sense": "for the benefit of",
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      "code": "pt",
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "for the benefit of",
      "word": "en apoyo de"
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "for the benefit of",
      "word": "för"
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    {
      "code": "vi",
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      "sense": "for the benefit of",
      "word": "cho"
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    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "out of preference for",
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      "code": "es",
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      "word": "en favor de"
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}

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