(favours, favouring, favoured)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
Note: in AM, use 'favor'
1.
If you regard something or someone with favour, you like or support them.
It remains to be seen if the show will still find favour with a 1990s audience...
No one would look with favour on the continuing military rule...
He has won favour with a wide range of interest groups.
N-UNCOUNT
2.
If you do someone a favour, you do something for them even though you do not have to.
I've come to ask you to do me a favour...
N-COUNT
3.
If you favour something, you prefer it to the other choices available.
The French say they favour a transition to democracy...
He favours bringing the UN into touch with 'modern realities'.
VERB: V n, V -ing
4.
If you favour someone, you treat them better or in a kinder way than you treat other people.
The Government came under fire yesterday for favouring elitist arts groups in the South-east...
VERB: V n
5.
If you are in favour of something, you support it and think that it is a good thing.
I wouldn't be in favour of income tax cuts...
Yet this is a Government which proclaims that it is all in favour of openness...
The vote passed with 111 in favour and 25 against.
PHRASE: oft v-link PHR, PHR of n
6.
If someone makes a judgment in your favour, they say that you are right about something.
If the commission rules in Mr Welch's favour the case will go to the European Court of Human Rights.
PHRASE: PHR after v
7.
If something is in your favour, it helps you or gives you an advantage.
Firms are trying to shift the balance of power in the labour market back in their favour.
PHRASE: n PHR, PHR after v, v-link PHR
8.
If one thing is rejected in favour of another, the second thing is done or chosen instead of the first.
The policy was rejected in favour of a more cautious approach.
PHRASE: PHR n, usu PHR after v
9.
If someone or something is in favour, people like or support them. If they are out of favour, people no longer like or support them.
PHRASE: v-link PHR