Favour I Found Court Owes Thing Extra Examples

• could you do me a favour and pick up sam from school today?
• can i ask a favour?
• i would never ask for any favours from her.
• i'll ask steve to take it. he owes me a favour.

favour

1. a thing that you do to help somebody
• Could you do me a favour and pick up Sam from school today?
• Can I ask a favour?
• I would never ask for any favours from her.
• I'll ask Steve to take it. He owes me a favour.
• Thanks for helping me out. I'll return the favour (= help you because you have helped me) some time.
• I'm going as a favour to Ann, not because I want to.
• Do yourself a favour (= help yourself) and wear a helmet on the bike.

Extra Examples

• He needed another favour from her.
• Although I am friends with the tennis ace, I don't expect any favours from him on court.
• As a personal favour to me, please don't release my story to the press.
• Do yourself a favour and cut your credit cards in half.
• Thanks very much. I'll return the favour one day.
• I came here to ask you a big favour.
• I don't expect any favours from my friends on the tennis court.
• I'll ask Jane. She owes me a favour.
• Rodrigo accepted the favours bestowed on him by the new king.
• She had one last favour to ask her brother.
2. approval or support for somebody/something
• Artists sought the favour of wealthy patrons.
• The suggestion to close the road has found favour with (= been supported by) local people.
• to gain/win/lose favour with somebody
• The programme has lost favour with viewers recently.
• The policy is gaining favour among voters.
• She's not in favour with (= supported or liked by) the media just now.
• It seems Tim is back in favour with the boss (= the boss likes him again).
• Reality TV has begun to fall out of favour with viewers.
• an athlete who fell from favour after a drugs scandal
• The government looks with favour upon (= approves of) the report's recommendations.

Extra Examples

• Depth of training is looked upon with favour by many employers.
• He stood in high favour at the court of Lewis the Pious.
• Her political views have not found favour in recent years.
• In the Christian tradition, the world exists only as an act of divine favour.
• She is too popular with the public to find much favour with the critics.
• The bishop was said to have enjoyed the king's favour.
• The senior officials were punished and rapidly fell from favour.
• This argument found favour among advocates of multiculturalism.
• This did not meet with public favour.
• This idea has long since fallen out of favour.
• Traditionally, vigilante groups have found greater favour on the political right.
• Why are we trying to court the favour of critics?
• This piece of software has two points in its favour: it's fast and inexpensive.
3. treatment that is generous to one person or group in a way that seems unfair to others
• SYNONYM bias
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/bias_2
• As an examiner, she showed no favour to any candidate.
4. a small gift given to children at a party
5. agreement to have sex with somebody
• demands for sexual favours
6. you are likely to succeed because the conditions are good and you have an advantage
7. to try to get somebody to like or support you by praising or helping them a lot
• He’s always trying to curry favour with the boss.
• He tried to curry favour with the teachers.
8. used in reply to a question that you think is silly
• ‘Do you think they'll win?’ ‘Do me a favour! They haven't got a single decent player.’
9. to do something that is not helpful to somebody or that gives a bad impression of them
• You're not doing yourself any favours, working for nothing.
• The orchestra did Beethoven no favours.
10. if you are in favour of somebody/something, you support and agree with them/it
• He argued in favour of a strike.
• There were 247 votes in favour (of the motion) and 152 against.
• I'm all in favour of (= completely support) equal pay for equal work.
• Most of the ‘don't knows’ in the opinion polls came down in favour of (= eventually chose to support) the Democrats.

Extra Examples

• He is strongly in favour of capital punishment.
• No one was willing to speak out in favour of their colleague.
• She argued in favour of this policy.
• The committee came down in favour of setting up a national body.
• an argument in favour of censorship
• Environmental conservation generally works in favour of maintaining the status quo.
11. in exchange for another thing (because the other thing is better or you want it more)
• He abandoned teaching in favour of a career as a musician.
• Early in his musical career he abandoned blues in favour of jazz.
12. if something is in somebody’s favour, it gives them an advantage or helps them
• The exchange rate is in our favour at the moment.
• She was willing to bend the rules in Mary's favour.
• The golf tournament went in the Americans' favour.
13. a decision or judgement that is in somebody’s favour benefits that person or says that they were right
• The court decided in Ms Smith’s favour and she received compensation for unfair dismissal.
• The High Court found in favour of the plaintiffs.
14. in a fair way
• They undertook to make their judgement without fear or favour.

Word Origin

• Middle English (in the noun sense ‘liking, preference’): via Old French from Latin favor, from favere ‘show kindness to’ (related to fovere ‘cherish’).