different between goodwill vs concord

English

Etymology

From Middle English *goodwille, good wille (“goodwill”), perhaps from Old English *g?dwille (“goodwill”); compare Old English g?dwillende (“well-pleased”); also Scots guidwilly, guidwillie (“displaying goodwill”), equivalent to good +? will. Cognate with Scots guidwill (“goodwill”), Middle Low German g?twille (“goodwill”), Old High German guotwilligi (“goodwill”), Old Danish godvilje (“goodwill”), Icelandic góðvilji, góðvili (“goodwill”), Icelandic góðvild (“goodness”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??d?w?l/

Noun

goodwill (usually uncountable, plural goodwills)

1. A favorably disposed attitude toward someone or something.
   • 20 January 2017, Donald Trump, Inauguration Speech

     We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world - but we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations to put their own interests first.

2. (accounting) The value of a business entity not directly attributable to its tangible assets and liabilities. This value derives from factors such as consumer loyalty to the brand.
3. (business) A concept used to refer to the ability of an individual or business to exert influence within a community, club, market or another type of group, without having to resort to the use of an asset (such as money or property), either directly or by the creation of a lien.

Antonyms

• ill will

Translations

See also

• bona fides

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English goodwill.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ut.??l/, [??ut.??l], [??ud.w?l]
• Hyphenation: good?will

Noun

goodwill m (uncountable)

1. goodwill

Finnish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English goodwill.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??udwil/, [??udwil]

Noun

goodwill

1. goodwill (intangible business value)

Declension

Synonyms

• liikearvo

English

Etymology 1

From French concorde, Latin concordia, from concors (“of the same mind, agreeing”); con- + cor, cordis (“heart”). See heart, and compare accord.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?n.k??d/, /?k??.k??d/

Noun

concord (countable and uncountable, plural concords)

1. A state of agreement; harmony; union.
2. (obsolete) Agreement by stipulation; compact; covenant; treaty or league
   • 1612, Sir John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued

     the concord made between King Henry II and Roderick O'Connor

3. (grammar) Agreement of words with one another, in gender, number, person or case.
4. (law, obsolete) An agreement between the parties to a fine of land in reference to the manner in which it should pass, being an acknowledgment that the land in question belonged to the complainant. See fine.

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5. (probably influenced by chord, music) An agreeable combination of tones simultaneously heard; a consonant chord; consonance; harmony.

Related terms

Translations

Etymology 2

After Concord, Massachusetts, where the variety was developed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?n.k??d/

Noun

concord (plural concords)

1. A variety of sweet American grape, with large dark blue (almost black) grapes in compact clusters; a Concord grape.

Etymology 3

From French concorder, from Latin concord?

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?k??d/

Verb

concord (third-person singular simple present concords, present participle concording, simple past and past participle concorded)

1. (intransitive) To agree; to act together

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