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What (who) is behove - definition


behove      
Behove      
·v and derivatives. ·see Behoove, &c.
behove      
(behoves, behoved)
Note: in AM, use 'behoove'
If it behoves you to do something, it is right, necessary, or useful for you to do it. (FORMAL)
It behoves us to think of these dangers.
VERB: it V n to-inf
Examples of use of behove
1. He said, it did not behove the MMA to do dictatorial type of legislation due to their majority in the NWFP assembly.
2. It more or less indicated that it did not behove the government well to be seen as being in an unseemly hurry.
3. If Messrs Bermingham, Darby and Mulgrew really did defraud NatWest to line their own pockets, as they stand accused of doing, it would hardly behove them to posture about the legal niceties of the handling of their case.