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What does in favor of mean?

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Preposition
  1. For; in support of; approving, supporting.
  2. For the benefit of; to the order of.
  3. Out of preference for.
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His employers realized his natural affinity for creating interesting smokes and immediately suspended all his other duties in favor of research.
So the system is weighted in favor of the habitual offender who knows the intricacies of the law better than the average joe.
That will open the way for the White House to eventually propose junking the whole system in favor of a consumption tax, he predicts.
One beneficial effect of this curatorial decision was to emphasize that Palermo never gave up representation in favor of abstraction.
Then the administration essentially abandoned aeronautics in favor of space.
His evidence in favor of such a shift is instructive of his thinking and acceptance of Darwinian ideas.

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