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good offices
plural noun
- influence, especially with a person in a position of power:
He got the job through the good offices of his uncle.
- services rendered by a mediator in a dispute.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of good offices1
First recorded in 1900–05
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Example Sentences
He urged, that it would flatter the peculiarities of her character, and might conciliate her good offices for his liberty.
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I proceeded to scrutinise with close attention the strange being, by whose good offices such unlikely adventures had befallen me.
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At any rate, in the second sense he energetically applied the principle in his Good Offices.
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When in distress, the Fanti has a claim upon the good offices of his tribe.
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The good offices of an uncle were invoked on his behalf, and somewhat grudgingly given.
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