Favoured

Definition

favour ( US favor ) / 'feÇvǝ(r) / n ၁။ [U] ေထာက္ခံမႈ။ လက္ခံမႈ။ အကူအညီ။ win sb's favour ❍ her fall from international/royal favour ❍ He's not in favour with the media right now. ❍ Make-up for men seems to be going out of favour again. ❍ The scheme found favour with the town planners. ၂။ [U] ဘက္လိုက္မႈ။ As an examiner she was completely fair, showing no favour to any particular candidate. ၃။ [C] အကူအညီ။ I had a word with her boss, as a special favour to her. ❍ Can I ask a favour (of you)? ❍ Do me a favour and turn the music down while I'm on the phone, will you? ❍ ( infml ) The orchestra did Beethoven no favours (ie played his music badly). ၄။ favours [pl] အခြင့္အေရးေပးျခင္း။ be (too) free with one's sexual favours. v ၁။ ေထာက္ခံသည္။ favour an idea/a candidate/a ban on sth ❍ Mr Baker favours changing the law on this. ၂။ အခြင့္အေရးေပးသည္။ The match schedule favours certain teams. ❏ in favour of sb/sth [ IDM ] ၁။ ေထာက္ခံသည္။ He argued/voted in favour of the death penalty. ❍ There were 247 votes in favour (of the motion) and 152 against. ❍ Public feeling is increasingly in favour of women priests. ၂။ တစ္စံုတစ္ေယာက္ (သို႔) တစ္စံုတစ္ရာျဖင့္ အစားထိုးသည္။ She's sold her old car in favour of one that's smaller and more economical. ❏ in sb's favour [ IDM ] အက်ဳိးအျမတ္။ ဘက္။ The court decided in his favour. ❍ bend the rules in sb's favour ❍ The exchange rate is in our favour (ie It will benefit us when we change money). ❏ favoured / 'feÇvǝd / adj ၁။ အခြင့္အေရးရရိွေသာ။ a member of the President's favoured circle of advisers. ၂။ အေလးသာေသာ။ the single most favoured option for dealing with traffic congestion.

Examples

1. [do someone a favour] : Could you do me a favour?
2. [ask a favour of someone] : Can I ask a favour of you?
3. [owe someone a favour] : I’ll ask Steve. He owes me a favour.
4. [return a favour] : Thanks very much for your help. I’ll return the favour some time.
5. [do something as a favour] : He wouldn’t take any money for his work: he insisted he was doing it as a favour.
6. [find/gain/win favour (with someone)] : This approach has won more favour in the US than in Britain.
7. [lose favour (with someone)] : Nuclear power stations have lost favour in recent years.
8. [curry favour] : An ambitious young man willing to curry favour with his superiors
9. [show favour to someone] : He was careful to show no favour to anyone.
10. He was found guilty of selling secrets in return for sexual favours.