(interj.) Go well; good-by; adieu; -- originally applied to a person departing, but by custom now applied both to those who depart and those who remain. It is often separated by the pronoun; as, fare you well; and is sometimes used as an expression of separation only; as, farewell the year; farewell, ye sweet groves; that is, I bid you farewell.
(n.) A wish of happiness or welfare at parting; the parting compliment; a good-by; adieu.
(n.) Act of departure; leave-taking; a last look at, or reference to something.
(a.) Parting; valedictory; final; as, a farewell discourse; his farewell bow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Monday's ruling didn't just undercut the mayor's farewell gesture, a capstone in his crusade against unhealthful or just distasteful public behavior, which he was planning to trumpet on Letterman that night.
(2) Rudd's spectacular fall is a fate that the now former PM, a proud man who some say is driven by a quiet rage, will find difficult to accept – he shed tears in his farewell address .
(3) In the song Christmas and Owen argue that if women were a Pot Noodle it would be "farewell to nagging and random tantrums".
(4) During a break between Detective Frost and Whitechapel, I decided to have a farewell glass of port in the honesty bar adjacent to the library.
(5) The boss of a successful US hedge fund has quit the industry with an extraordinary farewell letter dismissing his rivals as over-privileged "idiots" and thanking "stupid" traders for making him rich.
(6) But Moyes would not be drawn on the chances of this being their European farewell.
(7) More than half a century after the US military draft put Elvis Presley's career on hold, his modern-day South Korean counterpart bade farewell to tearful fans this week as he prepared for two years' national service.
(8) If this is verified, we may say farewell to routine smallpox vaccination.
(9) But this was a thoroughly joyous and well-crafted farewell.
(10) When France put an end to capital punishment in 1981, it also bid a not-so-fond farewell to the instrument of death that had taken the lives of thousands.
(11) This is a farewell message [from a doctor] whose fate along with that of his companions is death or arrest at any moment.” One resident said the airstrikes had subsided by Tuesday morning due to lower visibility and rain, offering a brief respite to civilians who were still on the move and seeking shelter in the rebel districts.
(12) Frank Lampard had moved to nip all talk of farewells in the bud.
(13) Thompson was also a generous host of farewell dinners for departing BBC staff.
(14) Gassman's swan song, or serata d'addio, the farewell performance which Italian actors of distinction were always expected to give, began in 1996.
(15) Leaving London this morning after a formal farewell from the Queen at Buckingham Palace, Mr Bush and his entourage made their way on Air Force One to the prime minister's County Durham constituency.
(16) One of only two artworks on display to feature any colour is Farewell, based on a picture she took of her father looking out from his study into his wild, overgrown back garden for the last time.
(17) The analysis demonstrates differences in the two therapists' practice from the very moment patient and therapist greet one another till they say farewell.
(18) Big international firms should shoulder (their) due responsibilities to bid farewell to malpractice, setting a good example and serving as a wake-up call for domestic pharmaceutical companies.
(19) I realized that win or lose, there are people out there that see what I’m doing and follow it as a role model.” Although he slogged vigorously across his home state in the pursuit of every last vote, the final 10 days of Rubio’s campaign more closely resembled a farewell tour.
(20) A great woman gone far too young.” Bellingham’s pre-recorded farewell appearance on Loose Women is due to be screened on Wednesday.
Welfare
Definition:
(n.) Well-doing or well-being in any respect; the enjoyment of health and the common blessings of life; exemption from any evil or calamity; prosperity; happiness.
Example Sentences:
(1) This "paradox of redistribution" was certainly observable in Britain, where Welfare retained its status as one of the 20th century's most exalted creations, even while those claiming benefits were treated with ever greater contempt.
(2) The heretofore "permanently and totally disabled versus able-bodied" principle in welfare reforms is being abbandoned.
(3) The chancellor confirmed he would bring in a welfare cap of £119.5bn, with the state pension and unemployment benefits exempted from this.
(4) A new type of artificial blood, pyridoxylated hemoglobin-polyoxyethylene conjugate (PHP) solution, (developed by PHP research group of the department of health and welfare of Japan, and produced by Ajinomoto Co., Inc. Tokyo) as an oxygen-carrying component, has been recently devised using hemoglobin obtained from hemolyzed human erythrocytes.
(5) The public finance forecasts are linked to those growth predictions, since stronger growth means healthier tax receipts and lower spending on unemployment benefit and other welfare measures.
(6) Pensioners, like those in receipt of long-term social welfare payments or those who can prove they cannot provide their heating needs during winter, are entitled to a means-tested weekly winter fuel allowance of €20 (£ 14.54) per household.
(7) Thatcher made changes to the UK's tax system, some changes to welfare, and many to the nature of British jobs, both through privatisation and economic liberalisation – not least in her battle with the unions.
(8) Repeat patients were more likely to threaten to harm others, have a diagnosis of adjustment disorder, conduct or oppositional disorder and be under the care of a child welfare agency.
(9) We need welfare changes that help get our economy growing again, not changes that will entrench unemployment and dependency further."
(10) Jamat-ud Dawa, the social welfare wing of LeT, has been blacklisted in the wake of the Mumbai attacks although it continues to function.
(11) Lynn Kramer, the zoo's vice-president of animal operations and welfare, said five lions were typically in the exhibit and have never appeared to endanger each other before.
(12) Nowadays, many of the core welfare state functions have been devolved to the Scottish parliament.
(13) Also in June, a former welfare minister, Shlomo Benizri , was jailed for four years for taking bribes while in office.
(14) In two experimental subdistricts, researchers observed the work of family welfare assistants (FWAs), the female family planning field-workers, to determine the duration and frequency of their home visits with village women and the content of their exchanges.
(15) Iain Duncan-Smith, the new welfare secretary, said it was if the two parties had been working together for years.
(16) Personal attendants (welfare assistants) could be allocated to each of the more severely handicapped children.
(17) But in April, this was reduced to 70% as ministers tried to slash the welfare bill.
(18) It shows that while accessibility in the study area improved between 1979 and 1982 through the establishment of more dispensaries and maternity and child-welfare centres, the relative efficiency of locations has remained low.
(19) The government is considering ending the annual inflation-linked rise in benefits as part of the drive to find additional savings in the welfare budget, according to the BBC .
(20) Welfare cuts are now becoming a matter of life or death | Letters Read more But government sources suggested the political pressures on Osborne, who has been criticised publicly by a series of Tory MPs, suggest he will act more flexibly and direct substantial resources to softening the impact of the cuts.