courtesies

noun

plural of courtesy
1
as in services
an act of kind assistance did me the courtesy of loaning me his jacket

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2
as in gestures
an act or utterance that is a customary show of good manners the greeting "How are you?" is often intended as no more than a courtesy

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Recent Examples of courtesies Small courtesies keep big efforts moving forward. — Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 15 Mar. 2026 Leonora measures out her days in courtesies and slights, the former dominating the beginning of the book, the latter rapidly gaining ground. — Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025 With both courtesies and catastrophes refusing to conform, the canton’s school board, publishers, and clergy were forced to produce multiple editions of primers, textbooks, and catechisms; sometimes five parallel print runs were needed for a population the size of a town. — Simon Akam, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for courtesies
  1. services
  2. gestures
  3. privileges
  4. graces
  5. mercies
  6. favors
Noun
  • Participants in the civil proceedings can hire private stenographers to maintain a record of what’s said, but their services can run thousands of dollars a day.
    — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
  • If there are no Apple App Store services in 2276, our historical iPhone 17 Pro has another insurmountable problem.
    — Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 6 July 2026
Definition of services
Noun
  • Good Lock is Samsung’s official app for deep customisation, lock screens, themes, gestures, and more, and LockStar is the module specifically for lock screen and always-on display tinkering.
    — Janhoi McGregor, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
  • In the afternoon, the moon will make an opposition to Venus in Leo, which is where gestures or our desire for affection become more complicated.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 3 July 2026
Definition of gestures
Noun
  • An ultra-secure cloud environment is useless if the identity management policy is lax or if access privileges are not reviewed on a strict need-to-know basis.
    — Vicente Pava, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Justices Thomas and Jackson focused in part on the court’s notorious 1857 decision called Dred Scott, which ruled a slave couldn’t be a citizen or claim the resultant rights and privileges.
    — Chris Kenning, USA Today, 30 June 2026
Definition of privileges
Noun
  • After first going dark following the incident, Clark has offered plenty of apologies in hopes of getting back in the game’s good graces.
    — Brendan Quinn, New York Times, 21 June 2026
  • Post set the gold standard for manners and social behavior for generations of Americans, social graces still valued and taught today.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 19 June 2026
Definition of graces
Noun
  • Then His unveiled, sweet mercies show Life’s burdens light.
    — Douglas Sytsma, Christian Science Monitor, 30 Jan. 2025
Definition of mercies
Noun
  • This is a great time to work as a team, find a long-term partner, or even ask for favors.
    — Kyle Thomas, PEOPLE, 5 July 2026
  • That might mean gutting labor or safety standards that would delay the technology’s rollout, ignoring anticompetitive acts, or providing favors in the form of cheap loans or lucrative government contracts.
    — Rogé Karma, The Atlantic, 2 July 2026
Definition of favors

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