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on behalf of

on behalf of preposition: speaking or acting for.

Preposition

on behalf of

  1. Speaking or acting for.
    • On behalf of all those present, may I thank you for a well-executed presentation.
    • Hillary Clinton hasn’t hit the campaign trail yet on behalf of Democrats running in 2018, but that isn’t stopping Republicans from using the former 2016 Democratic presidential nominee as a reliable campaign boogeyman.2018 March 30, Eric Bradner, “Hillary Clinton re-emerges as GOP’s reliable boogeyman”, in CNN, archived from the original on 24 Jun 2019
    Synonyms:
    in behalf of

on behalf of meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Kannada

on behalf of in Tamil

சார்பாக, பொருட்டு

on behalf of in Urdu

بدلے, واسطے

on behalf of in Bengali

on behalf of
হয়ে hôẏe

on behalf of in Kannada

ಪರವಾಗಿ, ಬದಲಾಗಿ
More languagesFewer languages
on behalf of in Arabic
بِاسْم bi-sm, بِالنِّيَابَة عَن bi-n-niyāba ʕan
on behalf of in Indonesian
atas nama
on behalf of in Vietnamese
thay mặt cho, nhân danh

Synonyms of on behalf of

Words formed from on behalf of

Questions about on behalf of

What does on behalf of mean?
On behalf of means speaking or acting for.
What is on behalf of in Tamil?
On behalf of in Tamil is சார்பாக, பொருட்டு. See On behalf of meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is on behalf of?
On behalf of is a preposition.

Words near on behalf of in the dictionary

  1. on background
  2. on bad terms
  3. on bail
  4. on balance
  5. on base
  6. on behalf of
  7. on bended knee
  8. on Bible
  9. on blast
  10. on board
  11. on book

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Adapted from Wiktionary: on behalf of (page history and authors); on behalf of (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); on behalf of (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); হয়ে (Bengali) (page history and authors); on behalf of (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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