Gift Definition–noun | 1. | something given voluntarily without payment in return, as to show favor toward someone, honor an occasion, or make a gesture of assistance; present. |
| 3. | something bestowed or acquired without any particular effort by the recipient or without its being earned: Those extra points he got in the game were a total gift. |
| 4. | a special ability or capacity; natural endowment; talent: the gift of saying the right thing at the right time. |
–verb (used with object) | 5. | to present with as a gift; bestow gifts upon; endow with. |
| 6. | to present (someone) with a gift: just the thing to gift the newlyweds. |
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Related topics from Britannicagift
in law, a present or thing bestowed gratuitously. The term is generally restricted to mean gratuitous transfers inter vivos (among the living) of real or personal property. A valid gift requires: ...
gift tax
a levy imposed on gratuitous transfers of property-i.e., those made without compensation. Provisions for such taxes are common in national tax systems.gift exchange
the transfer of goods or services that, although regarded as voluntary by the people involved, is part of the expected social behaviour. Gift exchange may be distinguished from other types of ...
tongues, gift of
(from Greek glossa, "tongue," and lalia, "talking"), utterances approximating words and speech, usually produced during states of intense religious excitement. The vocal organs of the speaker are ...
Pandora
in Greek mythology, the first woman. According to Hesiod's Theogony, after Prometheus, a fire god and divine trickster, had stolen fire from heaven and bestowed it upon mortals, Zeus, the king of the ...
winter aconite
any of about seven species of perennial herbaceous plants constituting the genus Eranthis of the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae) native to the temperate regions of Europe and widely planted for ...
property law
One area not covered by the 2007 property rights law was the law regarding gifts. Chinese law classifies gifts as contracts. On the basis of the body of contract law that was adopted in 1999, a gift ...
property law
In Anglo-American law a promise to make a gift is not a binding contract, because it lacks the essential element of consideration (the requirement that to be valid a contract must involve a ...
sacrifice
Although all sacrifice involves the giving of something, there are some sacrificial rites in which the oblation is regarded as a gift made to a deity either in expectation of a return gift or as the ...
civil law
The Napoleonic Code adopted many of the ideas of the Revolution concerning succession. But its formulators tempered them with exceptions and combined them with ideas from the ancien regime. |
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Manitoba businessman says his $5M gift for high school arts centre ...
Macro World Investor - Found Jun. 18, 2008
WINNIPEG, A Manitoba businessman says his $5-million gift for a high school performing arts centre in his hometown of Morden was ''shunned' by a
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The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, NJ, Announces Historic $30 Million ...
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Believed to be Largest Gift Ever to a New Jersey Hospital RIDGEWOOD, N.J., June 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Ridgewood resident David F. Bolger,
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$3.5M gift to Toronto symphony to fund concertmaster post
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The has received a $3.5-million gift from a familiar face: former board member and past chair Henry Thomas Beck.
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African American Muslim Women a Rare Gift
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African American Muslim women are a rare gift in that we have a unique perspective on what it means to be Muslim in the United States.
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Here is Part 3 of our gift guide, stocked with stuff we like. But get crackin', the big day is less than a week away!
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