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largess

[lahr-jes, lahr-jis]

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noun

generous bestowal of gifts.

the gift or gifts, as of money, so bestowed.

Obsolete. generosity; liberality.

Also, lar·gesse.

Origin:
1175–1225; Middle English largesse < Old French; see large, -ice

Can be confused: large, largess.

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But there is no consensus on erasing the legacy of deregulation that the company's political largess helped forge.

He survives only on the largess of his corporate sponsors.

It can only exist until the voters discover than they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury".

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But there is no consensus on erasing the legacy of deregulation that the company's political largess helped forge.

He survives only on the largess of his corporate sponsors.

It can only exist until the voters discover than they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury".

It is the unethical and self-serving legislators who accept the lobbyist money and largess that are the problem.

Computer science has traditionally been richly funded by government largess.

White's day, but the city does bestow occasional largess on those who pay attention.

Whatever the case, a number of colleges will benefit from the governor's largess.

Fed also by government largess and indulgence to mega companies.

Valerocan be attributed to this government largess with taxpayer dollars".

But the firm's legendary largess took a hit this year.

After all, the government largess foisted upon the causes of the.

Joffrey officials said they took the money because they need it and few others offer such largess.

Unless you are one of those who benefit from the largess of that dominant party, then you are utterly disenfranchised.

If there must be more highways, let them be private and paid for by users, not with federal largess.

It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury".

The days of plenty eventually disappeared, but competing demands for the government's largess continued.

Whether all this largess will be enough to negate the huge economic incentive to poach tigers is moot.

One way to insulate yourself from dubious largess is to accept only small tokens of esteem, not decision-clouding munificence.

Get the taxpayer off the hook for public sector retirement plan largess.

Even many companies that are geographically removed from the disaster are responding with remarkable largess.

Ultimately those poll results reflect peoples largess with what is precived as other' money and miserliness with their own.

Whether it takes private industry's largess or public-policy initiative to narrow it is still a matter of debate.

Illegals mostly do not pay taxes or social security payments yet often benefit greatly by the largess of the taxpayers.

But critics contend that the largess has also made communities dependent on central government spending.

Of course large corporations that indulge in tax evasion and who receive federal largess are hardly worth pursuing.

Even if it does, though, that may do little to stem the flow of largess from lobbyists to state officials.

Haiti now wants to be dependent on colonial largess from here to eternity.

Whether such largess is found in fashion designers, let alone those who qualify as couturiers, is open to debate.

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World English Dictionary

largesse or largess (lɑːˈdʒɛs)

—n
1.	the generous bestowal of gifts, favours, or money
2.	the things so bestowed
3.	generosity of spirit or attitude

[C13: from Old French, from large]

largess or largess

—n

[C13: from Old French, from large]

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