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goodwill

/good-wil/US // ˈgʊdˈwɪl //UK // (ˌɡʊdˈwɪl) //

亲善,亲情,亲善感,亲善的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : friendly disposition; benevolence; kindness.
    • : cheerful acquiescence or consent.
    • : 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.

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Examples

  • My approach was to foster a lot of goodwill, if you have a good reputation on Reddit, you have a pretty good stranglehold on what the rest of the internet thinks of you.

  • Federal prosecutors said Garmo’s gun-trafficking scheme, which included sales of high-capacity magazines, didn’t just bring in extra cash — it earned him goodwill among a class of donors he would need for a future run for sheriff.

  • On Kant’s view we need to understand how to help people adhere to the moral law because he thought that what matters most is one’s goodwill or motive.

  • When opportunity in great locations come up I think that goodwill will pay dividends for us.

  • This move also potentially squanders the goodwill the company garnered by issuing ads credits to businesses hurt by the pandemic.

  • 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.