favor
Example Sentences
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These unspoken pressures are all the more effective because leverage in the job market has tilted in favor of employers.
Two favored holding rates steady while one sought a cut of half a percentage point.
From Barron's
The case for easing rates further, which the majority favored, focuses less on inflation and more on rising unemployment and a weakening labor market.
Business management has fallen out of media and popular favor as entrepreneurs became the glory boys of American capitalism.
Herro favors companies where the interests of managers are aligned with shareholders via personal stakes in the company and the right pay incentives.
From MarketWatch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.