˜yÐÄvlog

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behest

[ bih-hest ]

noun

  1. a command or directive.

    Synonyms: , , , ,

  2. an earnest or strongly worded request.


behest

/ ²úɪˈ³óÉ›²õ³Ù /

noun

  1. an authoritative order or earnest request
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of behest1

before 1000; Middle English bihest ( e ), Old English ²ú±ð³óÇ£²õ promise. See be-, hest
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of behest1

Old English ²ú±ð³óÇ£²õ , from ²ú±ð³óÄå³Ù²¹²Ô ; see be- , hest
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At the behest of a friend, he moved to Atlanta to find his direction.

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Her death, largely contrived by Cromwell at the behest of his prince, bookends the 2015 adaptation and opens the 2025 sequel, creating a kind of illusion that the ten years separating them never existed.

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This almost certainly came at the behest of lawyers who are dealing with several lawsuits which argue Musk has no legal authority to order mass firings and directives, as he has clearly been doing.

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The clarification from the Trump administration comes roughly two weeks after a message from the Office of Personnel Management, seeming at Musk's behest, arrived in the inboxes of millions of federal workers.

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At the behest of protesters, Yunus came back to Bangladesh to lead the new interim government.

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