favouring+(verb)

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• favour — [[t]fe͟ɪvə(r)[/t]] ♦♦ favours, favouring, favoured (in AM, use favor) 1) N UNCOUNT 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… …   English dictionary

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• progressive — adjective 1》 proceeding gradually or in stages: a progressive decline in popularity.     ↘(of a disease or ailment) increasing in severity.     ↘(of tax) increasing as a proportion of the sum taxed as that sum increases. 2》 favouring social… …   English new terms dictionary

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• camp — I. /kæmp / (say kamp) noun 1. a group of tents, caravans, or other temporary shelters in one place: *Most of the Kurds passed the Allied run refugee camp of 1200 tents just outside Zakho, deciding instead to return home –herald sun, 1991. 2. the… …  

• smile — [c]/smaɪl / (say smuyl) verb (smiled, smiling) –verb (i) 1. to assume a facial expression, characterised especially by a widening of the mouth, indicative of pleasure, favour, kindliness, amusement, derision, scorn, etc. 2. to have a pleasant or… …