Goodwill
goodwill (noun) - 1. a friendly and helpful attitude towards other people, 2. assets of a firm that are not physical such as long-term relationships with customers, the name of the firm, the knowledge and skill of workerstheir goodwill is necessary to get this job done on time
how far can their goodwill be stretched?
the spirit of Christmas goodwill
enjoy goodwill
have goodwill
create goodwill
helps create goodwill
win goodwill
lose goodwill
depend on goodwill
rely on goodwill
express goodwill
show goodwill
goodwill towards customers
a gesture of goodwill
in a spirit of good will
goodwill that a company pays for
goodwill is the amount a buyer pays above a company's assets when he purchases a company
the goodwill left on the company's balance sheet is not much
goodwill talks
an act of goodwill
the prisoners' release should not be construed as an act of goodwill
the season of goodwill is just getting into full swing
peace and goodwill
build up goodwill
lose goodwill
value the goodwuill of a company
amortize goodwill
write-off goodwill
write-down goodwill
a goodwill writedown
a goodwill charge
many arrive full of goodwill and good intentions only to lose it quickly
relying on the goodwill of the people
those who believe that institutional practices can be changed by persistence and goodwill
the grant depended on continued government goodwill
she felt so full of energy, of goodwill
this situation cannot be allowed to continue, trespassing as we are on my wife's time and goodwill.
keep the confidence and goodwill of our clients
with all the goodwill in the world, I cannot repay this year, or not until after the harvest
a gesture of goodwill during the negotiations
the Season of Goodwill
work together, with goodwill
cordiality and goodwill
the goodwill of the business
the protection of the goodwill of the employer's business
paying outgoing partners of the firm for goodwill
assets include property, intellectual property, goodwill, debtors and fixed plant
goodwill with customers
his goodwill with those customers belonged to him
goodwill means having to show it
relying on their goodwill and friendship
teacher morale and goodwill has been at unprecedentedly low levels
morale and goodwill
a goodwill period
for all the goodwill of the government, bad things are still happening
a goodwill payment not based on an admission of error
goodwill and professionalism
Example sentences:
* It is only if we work together, with goodwill, that we shall come anywhere near that journey's end.
* Such assets include property, intellectual property, goodwill, debtors and fixed plant.
* Wherever possible, the better course would seem to be to make the switch from paying outgoing partners for goodwill to ensuring that all partners make proper retirement plan contributions.
* Only goodwill that a company pays for when it buys a business is recorded in the financial accounts.
* This construction meant that the clause went beyond the protection of the goodwill of the employer's business.
* With every evidence of cordiality and goodwill, she invited them both round for supper the following evening.
* His goodwill with those customers belonged to him and cannot reasonably be taken from him by a covenant of this kind.
* It's more appropriate to talk of the company having badwill than goodwill.
* This is a goodwill payment, not necessarily based on admission of error.
* Goodwill and professionalism seem to come to her easily.
* Many arrive full of goodwill and good intentions, but fail to perceive the often unanticipated consequences of their arrival on the lives of the local inhabitants, and even an oversensitivity of the need to spread goodwill around the village can appear to the locals to be both patronizing and unnecessary.
* It was not late, nothing like time for bed, she felt so full of energy, of goodwill, of the need to take some action.
* As I was about to say, this situation cannot be allowed to continue, trespassing as we are on my wife's time and goodwill.
* We shall not only survive but continue to grow so long as we give value for money, retain our record of innovation and flexibility, keep the confidence and goodwill of our clients and ensure that we have the best possible range of materials, methods and people in the industry.
* This has brought about an abundant supply of leased freehouses, forcing down the premium that a tenant might achieve in respect of goodwill.
* Yet, your Grace, with all the goodwill in the world, I cannot repay this year, or not until after the harvest.
* The two men then retired for goodwill talks, which one US official described as not negotiations.
* Mr Ramaphosa said that the prisoners' release should not be construed as an act of goodwill by Mr de Klerk, but as a reflection of the `;dismal'; failure of the apartheid regime to emasculate the will of the black majority.
* As the season of goodwill gets into full swing, Jill Papworth looks at some presents which will still be appreciated on Boxing Day.
* No goodwill speeches, no glowing perorations about `;the patience of our people under misfortune'; alter the plain fact that if people have to live and bear and bring up children in bad houses on too little food, their resistance to disease is lowered and they die before they should.
* The goodwill died with the fire and black shapes loomed up out of the dark.
* But in tucking a cover over the old man's knees, for there was snow on the ground outside and in spite of a roaring fire the room was not as warm as he was used to, she felt her hand patted and then he said, Peace and goodwill, peace and goodwill, that is the secret after all.'
* These wily chaps have realised that goodwill means having to show it.
* The appeal with this accompanying publicity played a useful part in the achievement of one million tons surplus as a result of the planting season of 1946, earning not only welcome export currency but also considerable goodwill.
* He went to live among the Nuer of the southern Sudan as a vulnerable outsider, relying on their goodwill and friendship to enable him gradually to merge into the background of their everyday lives.
* All this work has been undertaken with enthusiasm by teachers and on a voluntary basis, in a period of severe industrial action when teacher morale and goodwill were at unprecedentedly low levels.
* The last time Cuban exiles were allowed back in large numbers, during a goodwill period in the late 1970s, the country nearly collapsed in shock at the wealth they brought in their luggage.
* Although it is accepted their goodwill is necessary, respondents expect that there will be financial implications of implementing the recommendations.
* Yet, for all the goodwill of the government, the position of the nobility was gradually being eroded.
* How far their goodwill can be stretched is a moot point.
* It would involve crawling out of a window while nobody was looking and trusting in the spirit of Christmas goodwill should we be discovered.
* Whether that is done on the basis of relying on the goodwill of the people in private care or whether it is done through regulation is something that 1) we have to decide our preference on and 2) we have to lobby government quite hard on.
* It is favoured by all those who believe that institutional practices can be changed by persistence and goodwill, and by those who understand that the best way to defeat feminism is to co-opt its radical and rebellious potential.
* Fourth, the grant depended on continued government goodwill; in 1983 it was cut, and part of the rest was allotted only to courses jointly approved by employers.
* The PDC had previously threatened to leave the administration on Jan. 31 if the government was not opened to other political parties, and party officials described the change of stance as a gesture of goodwill in response to continuing negotiations.
* Not that it was any sort of crackdown on muggers or pickpockets, but in the week before the Season of Goodwill, the Marks and Spencer store on Orchard Street gets more bomb threats than the average American Embassy east of Cyprus.
