Usually means: Grants or gives as gift.
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  1. bestows: Merriam-Webster
  2. bestows: Collins English Dictionary
  3. bestows: Vocabulary.com
  4. Bestows, bestows: Wordnik
  5. bestows: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. bestows: Wiktionary
  7. bestows: Dictionary.com
  8. bestows: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. bestows: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bestows: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bestow)

verb:  To apply or make use of (someone or something); to employ, to use.
verb:  (specifically, obsolete) To apply (money) for some purpose; to expend, to spend.
verb:  To impart (something) gratuitously; to present (something) to someone or something, especially as a gift or an honour; to confer, to give, to accord.
verb:  (archaic)
verb:  To place or put (someone or something) somewhere or in a certain situation; to dispose of.
verb:  To deposit (something) for safekeeping; to lay up (something) in store; to stow.
verb:  (also reflexive) To provide (someone or oneself) with accommodation; to find quarters for (someone or oneself); to lodge, to quarter.
verb:  (obsolete)
verb:  (reflexive) To behave or conduct (oneself); to acquit.
verb:  (also reflexive) To give (someone or oneself) in marriage.
noun:  (obsolete, rare) An act of presenting a thing to someone or something, especially as a gift or an honour; a bestowal.
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