Definitions
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- noun Someone or something that
behaves . - noun psychology An individual whose
behaviour is beingmonitored orstudied .
Etymologies
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Examples
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A proximate explanation is a local one: what immediate effect the behavior has that reinforces it, or rewards the “behaver.”
INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009
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A proximate explanation is a local one: what immediate effect the behavior has that reinforces it, or rewards the “behaver.”
INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009
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"You're a beautiful behaver, Mr. Van Reypen," declared his hostess,
Patty's Suitors Carolyn Wells 1902
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The "good behavior" encouraged by this sign from the London (UK) police department may help the group and produce indirect benefits to the good-behaver.
The Why Files svmedaris 2010
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People aer so undeduated about the governments and / or how it works and that there are checks and balance for this type of behaver
Latest Articles 2009
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People who overlook the behaver of their party and it’s members, while expressing outrage at the misdeeds of another one.
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"An 'you tuck the right way to do that," they replied ironically; and they added, "Bartle Flanagan, you may thank the oaths we tuck, or be the crass, a single man of us wouldn't assist you in this consarn, afther your cowardly behaver to this poor girl.
Fardorougha, The Miser The Works of William Carleton, Volume One William Carleton 1831
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