favorable reception
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3.7
- noun
- /ˈfeɪvərəbəl rɪˈsɛpʃən/
- US
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recepción favorable
- The new policy received a favorable reception from both the community and local officials.
- getting a favorable reception
- generally favorable reception
- more favorable reception
Examples
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Mikulas (1983) has commented on the favorable reception accorded to the ideas and techniques of behavior modification in another Buddhist country, Thailand.
Academic text (1990) -
This conservative social vision was perhaps, in part, responsible for the initial favorable reception of the novel in Venezuela and the rest of Latin America.
Academic text (1993) -
A new editor may give your once-rejected query a more favorable reception.
Academic text (2008) -
Much is at stake when an academic volume is launched, and everything possible has to be done by the author to reassure himself that the effort was worth making and the book deserves a favorable reception.
Academic text (2001) -
Yet the Iranian press reported calmly on its favorable reception at Cannes, as the press there usually does when national films gain prestige abroad.
Blog text (3) -
Today, almost three years after its formal unveiling and despite a high-profile rollout and a generally favorable reception, Rice's signature initiative to transform U.S. diplomacy has failed.
Academic text (2009) -
Its favorable reception is due in part to the fact that Pausanias's text seems to provide a precedent for two unusual aspects of Filarete's representation: the portrayal of his assistants and the dancing motif.
Academic text (2012) -
He thanked the Trustees for the "short (but kind) account of my son, and the exceedingly favorable reception he met with" upon his arrival in London but lamented that "happy had it been if his subsequent behavior had not forfeited that good opinion of him."
Academic text (2008) -
Perhaps both politicians and writers of social science books sense that substantive accomplishments relevant to the office sought or the scholarly contribution pursued are by themselves insufficient to garner goodwill, popularity, and favorable reception.
Academic text (2001) -
Clearly, the public debut of le portrait chargé in 1665 was a factor in the favorable reception of the statues in 1666, the year of their arrival in the gardens.
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
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1.6
Official permission to do something from a person or group in charge
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3.4
The way people react to a person, idea or action
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1.0
A friendly greeting that makes someone feel pleased and at ease
An act of receiving something with approval
A warm friendly welcome that guests receive when they arrive
Antonyms
How Welcomed
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the act of being accepted or welcomed in a positive manner' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'favorable' (positive, beneficial) with 'reception' (the way something is welcomed or received). This adjective+noun composition follows normal semantic composition and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words should understand it.
Etymology
Favorable reception makes you think of someone or something arriving and getting smiles, claps and a warm welcome. The word favorable means good and reception means how people receive it, so a favorable reception means being 'accepted' or 'welcomed'.