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Definition of Behalf

Behalf

  1. Advantage; favor; stead; benefit; interest; profit; support; defense; vindication.

Behalf Quotations

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George Orwell

Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.
Hillary Clinton

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.
William James

Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
Ambrose Bierce

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.
Malcolm X
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Behalf Translations

behalf in Swedish is grund

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