Usually means: Appropriate or necessary under circumstances.
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  1. behooving: Merriam-Webster
  2. behooving: Collins English Dictionary
  3. behooving: Vocabulary.com
  4. behooving: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. behooving: Wiktionary
  6. Behooving, behooving: Dictionary.com
  7. Behooving: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Behooving: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. behooving: FreeDictionary.org
  10. behooving: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. behooving: Legal dictionary

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  1. behooving: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (behoove)

▸ verb:  (transitive, chiefly US) To befit, be appropriate or necessary to somebody. Alternative form of behove.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To be fitting.
▸ Also see behoove




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