noun [U]
1 friendly or helpful feelings towards other people or countries:
a spirit of goodwill in international relations * a goodwill gesture / a gesture of goodwill * The President is on a goodwill visit to Japan. * Given goodwill on both sides, I am sure we can reach an agreement. * Theatres increasingly have to rely on the goodwill of private sponsors to survive.
2 the good relationship between a business and its customers that is calculated as part of its value when it is sold
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for goodwill is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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