Behooves - What does it mean?
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(behoove)
(US) To suit; to befit
* 2002 , Senator Douglas Roche,
(US) To be necessary
(US) To be in one's best interest; to benefit
* 1803 , Thomas Jefferson in a
* 2007 , Gary D. Schmidt, The Wednesday Wars , page 208
behooves
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(head)behoove
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Alternative forms
* behove (UK)Verb
(behoov)Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Parliament of Canada:
- I think it ill behooves the Government of Canada[...] to pretend that there are not these distinctions in how each of us approaches questions of security.
letterto Benjamin Rush:
- It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others.
- "It behooves' us to be prepared. We will begin a series of atomic bomb drills ..." / "Becomes necessary, Mr. Hupfer," said Mrs. Baker, "as in 'It ' behooves us to raise our hands before we ask a question."