Usually means: Benefit or advantage to someone.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word behoove:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. behoove: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. behoove: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. behoove: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. behoove: Collins English Dictionary
  5. behoove: Vocabulary.com
  6. behoove: Wordnik
  7. behoove: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. behoove: Wiktionary
  9. behoove: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. behoove: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. behoove: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Behoove, behoove: Dictionary.com
  13. behoove: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Behoove: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. behoove: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. behoove: Rhymezone
  17. Behoove: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. behoove: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. behoove: Free Dictionary
  20. behoove: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. Behoove: The Word Detective
  22. behoove: Dictionary/thesaurus

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

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. behoove: A Word A Day
  2. behoove: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Behoove: 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.

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