in favor of (American spelling)
- For; in support of; approving, supporting.
- Synonyms: all for, pro
Many people are in favor of capital punishment.
- For the benefit of; to the order of.
He endorsed the note in favor of his uncle who had lent them the money.
- Out of preference for.
- Synonym: in something's favor
He left school after just three years in favor of a professional sports career.
in support of
- Catalan: a favor de
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 贊成／赞成 (zh) (zànchéng) (be in favor of ...), 支持 (zh) (zhīchí) (be in favor of ...)
- Dutch: ten gunste van (nl), ten faveure van (nl)
- Finnish: puolesta (fi)
- French: en faveur de (fr)
- German: zugunsten (de)
- Japanese: ...賛成して (ja) (...さんせいして, ...sansei shite), ...の賛成で (ja) (...のさんせいで, ... no sansei de)
- Macedonian: за (za)
- Malayalam: അനുകൂലമായി (anukūlamāyi)
- Polish: za (pl)
- Portuguese: a favor de
- Romanian: în favoarea, în avantajul
- Russian: в по́льзу (ru) (v pólʹzu) ( genitive case), за (ru) (za) ( accusative case), во бла́го (ru) (vo blágo), ра́ди (ru) (rádi), в интере́сах (ru) (v interésax)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: у корист
- Roman: u korist
- Spanish: a favor de
- Swedish: för (sv)
- Turkish: leh (tr), yan (tr)
- Vietnamese: ủng hộ (vi), thuận (vi)
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