1Cause to feel happy and satisfied.

1. 1.1no object Give satisfaction.
   ‘she was quiet and eager to please’
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   • ‘Putting on your best smile and adopting a pleasant, helpful attitude you stand eager and ready to please, waiting for the onslaught of the great shopping public.’
   • ‘This was a shame, because the staff were friendly and eager to please, and that end of Blossom Street really could do with a top-notch little eatery to spice it up.’
   • ‘I find myself behaving like the good little boy I was raised to be: deferential, eager to please.’
   • ‘Eager to please, Adam even has plastic surgery - a barely discernible nose job.’
   • ‘You get little respect and sometimes get lots of scorn, but yet you are faithful and eager to please.’
   • ‘He is, by inclination, eager to please, keen to win support within his party and go with the political grain.’
   • ‘He's eager and willing to please and follows my instructions without a fault.’
   • ‘The hotel offers rooms of five-star quality at four or even three-star prices and is notably eager to please.’
   • ‘They are eager to please and want to ensure that your business is successful.’
   • ‘Eager to please, it goes for easy laughs, reinforcing rather than challenging stereotypes.’
   • ‘Even the most eager to please and intelligent dog will need these rules reinforced all the time.’
   • ‘She's a little bit wild, eager to please, sexually adventurous and willing to do what they want.’
   • ‘A keen worker, Manuel is eager to please but possesses a poor command of the English language.’
   • ‘Eager as ever to please, here's just two of the many dissertations we received.’
   • ‘He was looking down at him like a puppy dog, eager to please but at the same time unable to speak his mind.’
   • ‘They like when I push them to the extremes of their body and they are always eager to please.’
   • ‘It may be equally frustrating to children who are eager to please, obtain approval, and gain parental acceptance.’
   • ‘These Edinburgh festivals generate noise and excitement and their proliferation pleases and astonishes.’
   • ‘The Sanctuary itself was spectacularly built and was very aesthetically pleasing to the eye.’
   Synonyms

   friendly, amiable, pleasant, agreeable, affable, nice, genial, likeable, good-humoured, charming, engaging, winning, delightful

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2. 1.2Satisfy aesthetically.
   ‘he was wearing a buttonhole that did not quite please the eye’
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   • ‘They do not recognize how aesthetically pleasing your site is but rather will digest the content of your site to understand its subject matter.’
   • ‘Indeed, relocating a city to a more effective, attractive but perhaps less aesthetically pleasing location has its logical merits if it improves its strategic aims.’
   • ‘The participants would be bringing aesthetically pleasing furniture suitable for those living in tiny accommodations.’
   • ‘My aesthetically pleasing black borders are back!’
   • ‘The patient will use an aesthetically pleasing reconstruction.’
   • ‘Get out of your rut of voting for the aesthetically pleasing contestant with no vocal talent, and pick the ones who can sing.’
   • ‘But I also didn't expect the modern yet historic and aesthetically pleasing city I found myself in this weekend.’
   • ‘An aesthetically pleasing city with clean air would make cycling and walking more pleasurable.’
   • ‘We all want a safer, cleaner and a more aesthetically pleasing community.’
   • ‘Display areas were created in which glass cases were as densely packed as possible without much regard to an aesthetically pleasing installation.’
   • ‘It wasn't just because of the camaraderie of the legends, but because of the aesthetically pleasing physiques they built as well.’
   • ‘Aesthetically pleasing it wasn't, but his goal did suggest a quickness of mind and, just as important, a ruthlessness that is engrained in all great strikers.’
   • ‘The surgeon also strives for a functional repair of the muscles and an aesthetically pleasing approximation of the skin edges.’
   • ‘The practice of counting pitches has all but eliminated the aesthetically pleasing complete game performance.’
   • ‘Such vitriol toughened her up for the less aesthetically pleasing career of boxing.’
   • ‘A woman's body is deemed to be valuable only as long as it satisfies men or pleases others in the society.’
   • ‘Moreover, the numerous wineries and vineyards were quite aesthetically pleasing to the eye.’
   • ‘The coloring looks good throughout, always vibrant and always pleasing to the eye.’
   • ‘‘We're trying to make the garden more visually pleasing and also attract inner town wildlife,’ said Mr Goldie.’
   • ‘It was ‘attractive and pleasing, both within and without’, and in its heyday could seat 1,000 worshippers.’
   Synonyms

   make happy, give pleasure to, make someone content, make someone glad, make someone pleased, make someone feel good, delight, charm, amuse, divert, entertain, be agreeable to, gladden, cheer up

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2please oneselfTake only one's own wishes into consideration in deciding how to act or proceed.

1. 2.1no object Wish or desire to do something.
   ‘feel free to wander around as you please’
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   • ‘People in life quote as they please, so we have the right to quote as we please.’
   • ‘Users of such indices can pick and choose as they please in this evolving garden of relationships.’
   • ‘But shoppers can't come and go as they please, nor can they always choose the food they want.’
   • ‘Even more than staying in a hotel you will have the freedom to get up when you like, stay up as late as you choose, come and go as you please, and eat when you want.’
   • ‘This incidence does raise several issues, not least of which is the continued lack of a proper policy to find permanent places for these people who continue to flout the law and do as they please.’
   • ‘And the soft drink industry says students should have the freedom to eat as they please unless their parents say otherwise.’
   • ‘Visitors will be able to come and go as they please, and there will be collecting boxes for them to make a donation.’
   • ‘If her relatives do not like it, they can do as they please.’
   • ‘We are all entitled to our opinions (and to think mine are a load of codswallop) and to get out there and express them as stridently as we please.’
   • ‘In a way, it's great that we have the luxurious situation that allows people to pretty-much come and go as they please - turning up to sing whenever they fancy.’
   • ‘More commonly, people seem to opt in and out of the traditional system as they please, positioning themselves to their greatest advantage.’
   • ‘That means governments can spend them as they please.’
   • ‘Agitate for the freedoms of everyone to worship as they please.’
   • ‘A total of 122 animals, of eight species, have been placed in the park; all but the deer are free to move around as they please.’
   • ‘‘Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please,’ warned Karl Marx.’
   • ‘Unlike the existing secure camp at Oakington, Cambridgeshire, the centres are expected to be open, with occupants free to come and go as they please.’
   • ‘I defend a private club's right to recruit membership as they please.’
   • ‘I understand that editors can hire and fire as they please.’
   • ‘For that reason I don't accept the unconditional authority of states to treat their citizens as they please.’
   • ‘The validity of such claims is measured best in Texas, where the big meatpackers have the most freedom to do as they please.’
   Synonyms

   like, want, wish, desire, see fit, think fit, choose, be inclined, will, prefer, opt

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2. 2.2it pleases, pleased, etc., someone to do something dated It is someone's choice to do something.
   ‘instead of attending the meeting, it pleased him to go off hunting’
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   • ‘If it pleases you to advance and research this theory, then please the more power to you.’
   • ‘I realise today that although his last diaries are very interesting, they have been composed for Chertkov and those whom it pleases Mr Chertkov to show them!’
   • ‘While it pleases me to read the above comments and Mr. Conley's challenge, I'm also pleased to see William stand up for Michael.’
   • ‘They have always been upfront about their desire to be famous, partly because this was a very vulgar thing to say in the Seventies and it pleased them to go against the grain.’
   • ‘Please, if it pleases you to laugh at the dog - do so.’

1Used in polite requests or questions.

1. 1.1Used to add urgency and emotion to a request.
   ‘please, please come home!’
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   • ‘If you feel envy from his mind - well, I ask that you please ignore the emotion.’
   • ‘There's only a little over a week to decide. Please, please, please!’
   • ‘Please, please return to your original format.’
   • ‘Please oh please oh please oh please oh please let it pass.’
   • ‘A note to bloggers: please, please make your links open in new windows.’
   • ‘So please, please, keep your presents rolling in!’
   • ‘Please, please, please, do not, in the event of any positive action, give me the conditioned reflex answer that any relaxation will have to be means tested.’
   • ‘Please, please do not destroy those palm trees.’
   • ‘Please, please, can we have a little perspective?’
   • ‘If you feel the same please, please, please let me know.’
   • ‘Please, please, I beg of people to write to their MP and demand in the name of British justice that capital punishment be reinstated in this country.’
   • ‘Please, please let us show that we respect the wild life of the Dales and put off the grass cutting till July - and give plants, birds and other creatures a chance.’
   • ‘Please please please understand that if I cause any offence to anybody, at all, anywhere, I apologise fulsomely and unreservedly.’
   • ‘While you're there, please, please, don't take a stroll along the Riverwalk.’
   • ‘Please, please let's get to work on this building and make sure it has some kind of future.’
   • ‘Thanks in advance, and please, please travel home to us safely.’
   • ‘So please please please vote for the lovely Vaughan.’
   • ‘But until we can help you get those things, please, please don't push us too far.’
   • ‘Please, please, please tell me they are still going to do this.’
2. 1.2Used to agree politely to a request.
   ‘‘May I ring you at home?’ ‘Please do.’’
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   • ‘Yes, Please Do Come In.’
   • ‘Actually, yes, please do erase everything on my ipod.’
   • ‘‘Yes, yes, please do,’ I would coo soothingly, anxious not to disturb his flow.’
3. 1.3Used in polite or emphatic acceptance of an offer.
   ‘‘Would you like a drink?’ ‘Yes, please.’’
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   • ‘Yes please Cath; that's the best offer I've had from any woman in months.’
   • ‘And she says yes, please, are you free this evening?’
   • ‘So yes please we tell the aged salesperson we'll have that one with 40 pounds off. ‘Ahh have you got an old fridge we can pick up then he asks’.’
   • ‘Yes please, but let's have a proper debate first!’
   • ‘I can't imagine there would have been too many cries of, Yes please.’
   • ‘We would love a new ‘academy’ for our children, yes please, but we'd like it for everyone.’
   • ‘‘Yes, please,’ Natalie answered, grabbing her glass and following Sheila to the sofa.’
   • ‘Yes, please, because at this time in my country it is really bad.’
4. 1.4Used to ask someone to stop doing something of which the speaker disapproves.
   ‘Rita, please—people are looking’
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   • ‘And please, stop emailing me asking when I am going to get your bio/picture up.’
   • ‘Many young people are, regrettably, disabled by illness or accident, so please will you stop and consider this before launching into a reprimand?’
   • ‘But please stop posting that particular conspiracy theory.’
   • ‘They are non-stop party favourites for a party you hope will stop, soon, please.’
   • ‘If you are calling for no reason at all, please stop because it's getting really annoying.’
   • ‘Don't give me that look please, stop begging me with your glances.’
   • ‘Now, please don't disapprove, but I am very fond of Peter Halliway.’
   • ‘‘Ilse, please stop,’ Niklas pleaded, clenching his fists and leaning on the chair.’
   • ‘But please stop thinking you know so much about me, because frankly it's getting boring.’
   • ‘So please, stop pretending that the motivations for this are inexplicable.’
5. 1.5Used to express incredulity or irritation.
   ‘Oh please, is that meant to be a serious argument?’
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   • ‘Oh, please. I've been reading some of the hubbub about our latest release on blogs here and there, and I have to say that some people simply need to take a pill.’
   • ‘Oh please! So Meg's foie gras post is up.’