Definitions

behalf

[bih-haf, -hahf] / bɪˈhæf, -ˈhɑf /

NOUN

personal interest

Synonyms

STRONGEST

favor side

STRONG

account advantage aid assistance benefit cause concern countenance defense encouragement furtherance good help part place profit recommendation representation sake service stead support welfare

Antonyms

STRONG

blockage disadvantage disapproval discouragement harm hindrance hurt impediment injury loss obstruction stop stoppage

Example Sentences

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Several great works, the opera “Atlas,” and “On Behalf of Nature” among them, have followed.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2023

They are actually from her book titled “On Behalf of the President: Presidential Spouses and White House Communications Strategy Today.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 26, 2022

He told BBC Radio Ulster's On Your Behalf programme there had been a "once in a lifetime blip in terms of the spike of wholesale energy costs".

From BBC • Nov. 20, 2021

December 6th and 10th: Meredith Monk’s “On Behalf of Nature,” at BAM, used song, dance, and instrumental composition to evoke the fragile immensity of the natural landscape.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 12, 2014

While Nature acted so weakly," says an ingenious Gentleman, writing in Mr. Savage's Behalf, "on the Humanity of the Parent, she seems on the Son's Side to have doubled her usual Influence.

From The Life of Mr. Richard Savage Who was Condemn'd with Mr. James Gregory, the last Sessions at the Old Baily, for the Murder of Mr. James Sinclair, at Robinson's Coffee-house at Charing-Cross. by Anonymous

Vocabulary lists containing behalf

"My Favorite Chaperone," Vocabulary from the short story

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Richard Nixon's "Checkers" Speech (1952)

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