different between goodwill vs patents

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

Noun

patents

1. plural of patent

Verb

patents

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of patent

Anagrams

• Pattens, pantest, pattens, pét-nats

Middle English

Noun

patents

1. Alternative form of patentes

Swedish

Noun

patents

1. indefinite genitive singular of patent
2. indefinite genitive plural of patent