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What does in favor of mean?

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Preposition
  1. For; in support of; approving, supporting.
  2. For the benefit of; to the order of.
  3. Out of preference for.
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Then the administration essentially abandoned aeronautics in favor of space.
That will open the way for the White House to eventually propose junking the whole system in favor of a consumption tax, he predicts.
His evidence in favor of such a shift is instructive of his thinking and acceptance of Darwinian ideas.
His employers realized his natural affinity for creating interesting smokes and immediately suspended all his other duties in favor of research.
That thread is dropped, though, in favor of a number of weepy aspects that drive the ending to saccharine heights.
A political party in favor of American independence, Whigs are usually anti-British and are willing to fight if they have to.

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