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grace and favour

grace and favour noun: owned by the sovereign or government and granted free of rent to a person as an expression of gratitude or obligation.

Noun

grace and favour (uncountable)

  1. (UK) Owned by the sovereign or government and granted free of rent to a person as an expression of gratitude or obligation.
    • In 1986 a fire began in a grace-and-favour apartment above the King's Apartments in the south Wren wing.2005, Nigel R. Jones, Architecture of England, Scotland, and Wales, page 127
    • In the days before she formally stepped down, Truss held farewell parties for her supporters at the prime ministerial grace-and-favour mansion of Chequers.2023 September 1, Aubrey Allegretti, “‘She’s totally lost it’: inside story of the unravelling of Liz Truss’s premiership”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Questions about grace and favour

What does grace and favour mean?
Grace and favour means owned by the sovereign or government and granted free of rent to a person as an expression of gratitude or obligation.
What part of speech is grace and favour?
Grace and favour is a noun.

Words near grace and favour in the dictionary

  1. Graca
  2. Gracas
  3. Gracchus
  4. grace
  5. grace and favor
  6. grace and favour
  7. Grace Estate
  8. grace note
  9. grace notes
  10. Grace Park East
  11. Grace Park West

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