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goodwill

or good will

[ good-wil ]

noun

  1. friendly disposition; benevolence; kindness.

    Synonyms: friendliness

  2. cheerful acquiescence or consent.
  3. Commerce. an intangible, saleable asset arising from the reputation of a business and its relations with its customers, distinct from the value of its stock and other tangible assets.


goodwill

/ ˌɡʊdˈwɪl /

noun

  1. a feeling of benevolence, approval, and kindly interest
  2. modifier resulting from, showing, or designed to show goodwill

    a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF

    the government sent a goodwill mission to Moscow

  3. willingness or acquiescence
  4. accounting an intangible asset taken into account in assessing the value of an enterprise and reflecting its commercial reputation, customer connections, etc


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Word History and Origins

Origin of goodwill1

First recorded before 900; Middle English; Old English gōd willa. See good, will 2

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Synonym Study

See favor.

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Example Sentences

The company would continue to refund these goodwill refunds.

There are few actresses these days that inspire more goodwill than Anna Kendrick.

After all, freeing hostages as goodwill gestures—without a guarantee of some benefit—is not the way the Kim family operates.

Eventually, it was gifted to Czar Peter the Great as a token of goodwill between the Germans and Russians.

As with a new president, there will likely be a short window of goodwill in which to act.

He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.

She received Quentin Dick, to whom she was well known, with a mixture of goodwill and quiet dignity.

We came in peace and goodwill, not to maim and slay, or to spread alarm and desolation through thy land.

His journey was made an occasion for special demonstrations of goodwill among the rival courtiers.

He collected fresh evidence of its fertility, salubrity, and riches, and of the goodwill of the natives towards Englishmen.

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