behoove

[Be*hoove·]

To behoove someone to do something is to make it advisable or necessary to do so, for their own good or that of others.

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To be necessary for; to be fit for; to be meet for, with respect to necessity, duty, or convenience; -- mostly used impersonally.

Verb
be appropriate or necessary; "IT behooves us to reflect on this matter"

v. t.
To be necessary for; to be fit for; to be meet for, with respect to necessity, duty, or convenience; -- mostly used impersonally.

v. i.
To be necessary, fit, or suitable; to befit; to belong as due.

n.
Advantage; behoof.

Behoove

Be*hoove" , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Behooved ; p. pr. & vb. n. Behooving.] [OE. bihoven, behoven, AS. behfian to have need of, fr. behf. See Behoof.] To be necessary for; to be fit for; to be meet for, with respect to necessity, duty, or convenience; -- mostly used impersonally.

And thus it behooved Christ to suffer.

[Also written behove.]

Behoove

Be*hoove" , v. i. To be necessary, fit, or suitable; to befit; to belong as due. Chaucer.

Behoove

Be*hoove", n. Advantage; behoof. [Obs.]

It shall not be to his behoove.

To be necessary for; to be fit for; to be meet for, with respect to necessity, duty, or convenience; -- mostly used impersonally.

To be necessary, fit, or suitable; to befit; to belong as due.

Advantage; behoof.

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Usage Examples

It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestine tragedy, there can be no stable peace in the Middle East.

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