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v. To be necessary or proper for: It behooves you at least to try.

verb-intransitive. To be necessary or proper.

v. To suit; to befit

v. To be necessary

v. To be in one's best interest; to benefit

v. To be necessary for; to be fit for; to be meet for, with respect to necessity, duty, or convenience; -- mostly used impersonally.

verb-intransitive. To be necessary, fit, or suitable; to befit; to belong as due.

n. Advantage; behoof.

To be fit or meet for, with respect to necessity, duty, or convenience; be necessary for; become: now used only in the third person singular with it as subject.

To relate to the advantage of; concern the well-being of: formerly used with a regular nominative.

To be necessary, suitable, or fit.

Also spelled behove.

n. An obsolete form (properly dative) of behoof.

v. be appropriate or necessary

"Yankees co-chairman Hank Steinbrenner told the Associated Press it would " behoove " Mr. Lee to sign with the Yankees."

behooved    behooves    behooving   

fit    conform to    meet   

behoof   

behove   

behooved    behooving   

befit    advantage    behoof    benefit   

approve    disapprove    disprove    groove    improve    move    prove    remove    veuve