Definition of “goodwill”

"This would be a goodwill gesture for the international community.

As the Parivar expands and its cadres notch up goodwill on the ground through social work, the bjp undoubtedly stands to gain.

Last August, Thomson took a $116-million [U. S.] charge to retained earnings because of lower goodwill at the media company.

Nick stood between his girlfriend and his daughter and smiled earnestly, as though goodwill alone would break down the barriers.

Nothing quite like Mozart to provoke goodwill to all men, Tadeusz mused, clapping soundlessly in his lonely box.

The goodwill write-off is an accounting convention with no cash implications.

The judge in the case commented that the actions of Legoland Windsor had seriously put at risk the goodwill of M&S.

The man accepted a fifty pfennig piece with a nod of something like goodwill.

Then she was dead and I lost the goodwill that had come attached to her.