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Benevolent feeling — business asset
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goodwill
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. (accounting) an intangible asset valued according to the advantage or reputation a business has acquired (over and above its tangible assets) [syn: good will ] the friendly hope that something will succeed [syn: good will ] a disposition to kindness ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A favorably disposed attitude toward someone or something. 2 (context accounting English) The value of a business entity not directly attributable to its tangible assets and liabilities. This value derives from factors such as consumer loyalty to the ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Goodwill in accounting is an intangible asset that arises when a buyer acquires an existing business. Goodwill represents assets that are not separately identifiable. Goodwill does not include identifiable assets that are capable of being separated or divided ...
Usage examples of goodwill.
There was an affectionate note from Eleanor Roosevelt: From all sides I have been hearing of the wonderful job you have done on your goodwill tour, and I have felt proud that you were representing our country.
Theoretically, we were in the middle of a goodwill airmanship contest.
More likely, Aris would trust too much in his own goodwill, and some superstitious peasant with no goodwill at all would bash his head in for him.
He had been the beloved of the minister Teploff, and, like a lad of wit, he not only was not ashamed but openly boasted that it was his custom to secure the goodwill of all men by his caresses.
Whereof he had some shame, but not much, for he deemed that her goodwill to him was abundant, which indeed it was.
Luke had deliberately risked her goodwill by using his powers to help Eppie, and frankly she admired his decision.
Suffice it that he did, everything included, the big godowns on the quais, shipping rights, the goodwill, stock and fixtures, and the old compradore, Li Yuan Chang.
The season of goodwill was everywhere, it seemed, except behind the steering wheels of gridlocked vehicles and inside my head.
Overflowing with energy and goodwill, he was ardent for reform of all kinds: smallpox inoculation for the poor, humane care for the insane, reform of the penal code, but especially for the abolition of slavery.
Sensing hostility beneath her neutral expression, Flinx summoned up feelings of inoffensiveness, safety, and goodwill, and strained to project them onto her.
Kuwaiti and Turkish goodwill, it would be difficult to try to ratchet up the level or scope of Anglo-American operations.
The First Consul then called me to him, and conversed a considerable time with me, renewing his protestations of goodwill towards me.
Simone now smiled at the lingerie saleswoman with all the goodwill she could muster.
Captain Munn had been presented with the keys of the capital city, Vyring, on the outskirts of which the Goodwill now rested, and the Venusians brought food in plenty-odd but tasty dishes from the hydroponic gardens.
Goodwill, but there was no objection to his experimenting in Vyring itself.