Recent Examples on the WebIn recent weeks, China and Russia have engaged in war games, renegotiated gas deals to better behoove their economies and have increasingly distanced themselves from diplomatic relations with Western nations. Caitlin Mcfall, Fox News, 7 Sep. 2022 All told, the plan was the culmination of decades of deliberations and analyses about what the many countries across the world and the United Nations could do in concert to behoove humankind. Lance Eliot, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022 Crown them with coal nuggets, handling Such antiquity as behooves it,For out of this darkness, light. Hartford Courant, courant.com, 17 May 2018 Does it really behoove IndyCar to turn away willing and paying participants? Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 3 Apr. 2018 These guys would all behoove themselves to just stay off Twitter.NBC News, 18 Mar. 2018 Lawrence — and anyone who operates on a serial-monogamy MO — should know that STIs are out there, and prevention behooves all of us. Maria Del Russo, Glamour, 8 Mar. 2018 All of which behooves the rebuilding Brewers – who took a big step forward with 86 victories in 2017 – to primarily build a solid pitching staff from within their own ranks. Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Dec. 2017 See More
Word History
Etymology
Middle English behoven, from Old English behōfian, from behōf
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense
Time Traveler
The first known use of behoove was before the 12th century