Definitions
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- adjective
pleasing ,encouraging orapproving - adjective
useful orhelpful - adjective
convenient or at asuitable time ;opportune - adjective
auspicious orlucky
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective occurring at a convenient or suitable time
- adjective presaging or likely to bring good luck
- adjective encouraging or approving or pleasing
- adjective (of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate
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Examples
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Earlier this year Mugabe said Malabo was providing his fuel - starved country with oil at what he described as favourable terms.
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(Subtler forms, perhaps arguable, although I remain favourable disposed to-wards him, I mean look at his confrères …) However, the bootlicker Naciri went for broke.
Global Voices in English » Morocco: Bloggers React to the Banning of Magazines 2009
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If he is a friend of the new President, his choice alone indicates a certain favourable interest by the President.
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Of course, this might lead to all kinds of schemes to register credit cards with billing addresses in favourable tax locations.
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Obviously, consistent work performance combined with good general behaviour will also result in favourable consideration for earlier release into the community under parole supervision.
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The technological stars and planets are now in favourable conjunction, so to speak -- and they will not stay that way for long.
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The degree of exactitude by which the atomic weights can thus be determined by the mass spectrograph amounts, in favourable cases, to one in a thousand.
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If growth continues at the present pace and general business conditions remain favourable, we anticipate that we will double again in the next ten years and that we will require about 1.5 billion of new capital.
Bell is Big Business 1964
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The geology is again favourable for natural gas and oil, with extensive sedimentary formations particularly in the Northwest Territories.
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It does not take violent forms (English people are almost invariably gentle and law-abiding), but it is ill-natured enough, and in favourable circumstances it could have political results.
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