good will

[good-wil]

good·will

[good-wil]
noun
1.
friendly disposition; benevolence; kindness.
2.
cheerful acquiescence or consent.
3.
Commerce. an intangible, salable 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.
Also, good will.


Origin:
before 900; Middle English; Old English gōd willa. See good, will2


1. friendliness. See favor.

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Good will is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
WordNet
good will

noun
1. a disposition to kindness and compassion; "the victor's grace in treating the vanquished" [syn: grace
2. (accounting) an intangible asset valued according to the advantage or reputation a business has acquired (over and above its tangible assets) 
3. the friendly hope that something will succeed 
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