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单词 behest
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behestnoun

uk/bɪˈhest/us/bɪˈhest/formal
at sb's behest/at the behest of sb

because someone has asked or ordered you to do something:

The budget proposal was adopted at the mayor's behest.

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Making appeals & requests

  • a cry for help idiom
  • appellate
  • application
  • ask for sb
  • beseech
  • besiege
  • besought
  • bum
  • cri de coeur
  • crowdsource
  • freeloader
  • gateway
  • go over sb's head idiom
  • hit
  • hit sb up
  • I'll thank you to do sth idiom
  • pester
  • petition
  • request
  • scrounge

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Giving orders & commands

behestnoun [ U ]

us/bɪˈhest/fml

a request:

Congress adopted the budget resolution at the behest of the president.
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