1 abbreviation for Goodwill Industries: a US-based organization that collects old clothes and other unwanted things and sells them at low prices in special shops. The money is used to provide jobs, training, and services for people who are poor and cannot find work:
2 a friendly attitude in which you wish that good things happen to people:
We hope the negotiations will take place in an atmosphere of openness and goodwill.
3 the value to a company or organization of things that cannot be directly measured, for example, its good reputation or its customers' loyalty:
Charitable endeavours are important to us in terms of goodwill.
4 the difference between the value of a company's assets and what profit it is expected to make in the future, which is included in the price paid when it is bought or sold:
As always in times of retrenchment, elected officials have needed to win the goodwill of voters and interest groups for these unpopular cutbacks.
Without their tolerance, commitment and goodwill this work could not have been undertaken.
Instinctively, they draw close to those whose goodwill, sympathy and courage they know.
He shows how difficult the task of negotiating teams would be in the absence of goodwill to overcome their differences.
In the absence of any representative assembly, detailed reporting of domestic politics was totally dependent on ministerial goodwill.
This suggests a nexus of goodwill that permeates their lives, moving across social zones of family, friends and neighbourhood.
However, we expect the state to set up enough polling stations for people not to have to rely on others' goodwill.
However impressive, presentation will regularly frustrate goodwill and intelligence.
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