Goodwill or good will may also refer to:
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Goodwill (accounting)
In accounting, goodwill is an intangible asset recognized when ownership of a firm is transferred as a going concern. It represents the value of a firm's intrinsic ability to retain customer business, where that value is not otherwise attributable ...
, the value of a business entity not directly attributable to its assets and liabilities
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Goodwill ambassador, occupation or title of a person that advocates a cause
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Goodwill Games
The Goodwill Games were an international sports competition created by Ted Turner in reaction to the political troubles surrounding the Olympic Games of the 1980s. In 1979, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan caused the United States and other ...
, a former international sports competition (1986–2000)
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Goodwill Industries
Goodwill Industries International Inc., often shortened in speech and writing to Goodwill (stylized as goodwill), is an American nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that provides job training, employment placement services, and other community-bas ...
, a non-profit organization
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Goodwill Entertainments, an Indian motion picture and distribution company
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Goodwill tour
A goodwill tour is a tour by someone or something famous to a series of places, with the purpose of expressing benevolent interest or concern for a group of people or a region, improving or maintaining a relationship between parties, and exhibiting ...
, a tour by someone or something famous to a series of places
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The Goodwill, a post-hardcore band from Long Island, New York formed in 2001
* , a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 or 1918 until the end of 1918
People with the name
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Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu, the former king of the Zulu nation
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Tommy Goodwill (1894–1916), English footballer
Places
* Goodwill, a Free Village in
Saint James Parish, Jamaica
* Goodwill, a suburb of
Roseau
Roseau (Dominican Creole: ''Wozo'') is the capital and largest city of Dominica, with a population of 14,725 as of 2011. It is a small and compact urban settlement, in the Saint George parish and surrounded by the Caribbean Sea, the Roseau Ri ...
, Dominica
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Goodwill, Maryland
Goodwill is an unincorporated community five miles (8 km) east of Pocomoke City in Worcester County, Maryland, United States, located at .
Originally called Davis Crossroads, or simply Crossroads, Goodwill grew at the crossing of the roads ...
, United States
See also
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Good Will Hunting'', a 1997 film directed by Gus Van Sant
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Social capital
Social capital is "the networks of relationships among people who live and work in a particular society, enabling that society to function effectively". It involves the effective functioning of social groups through interpersonal relationships ...
, the goodwill of social groups, in sociology and public health
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Good faith
In human interactions, good faith ( la, bona fides) is a sincere intention to be fair, open, and honest, regardless of the outcome of the interaction. Some Latin phrases have lost their literal meaning over centuries, but that is not the case ...
, the mental and moral state of honesty
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