Usually means: Benefit, advantage, or use; interest.
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  1. behoof: Merriam-Webster
  2. behoof: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. behoof: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. behoof: Collins English Dictionary
  5. behoof: Wordnik
  6. behoof: Wiktionary
  7. behoof: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. behoof: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. behoof: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Behoof, behoof: Dictionary.com
  11. Behoof: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. behoof: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Behoof: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. behoof: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. behoof: FreeDictionary.org
  16. behoof: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. behoof: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. behoof: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. behoof: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (behoof)

▸ noun:  (dated) That which is advantageous to a person; behalf, interest, advantage, profit, benefit.

Similar:
behalf, avail, benefit, profit, cause, percentage, weal, advantage, boon, concern, more...

Adjectives:
own, special, private, public, general, especial, sole, joint, common, singular, practical

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Similar:
behalf, avail, benefit, profit, cause, percentage, weal, advantage, boon, concern, more...

Adjectives:
own, special, private, public, general, especial, sole, joint, common, singular, practical



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