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Definition of Preferential
1. Adjective. Manifesting partiality. "A preferential shop gives priority or advantage to union members in hiring or promoting"
Definition of Preferential
1. a. Giving, indicating, or having a preference or precedence; as, a preferential claim; preferential shares.
Definition of Preferential
1. Adjective. Of or relating to the showing or giving of preference. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Preferential
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Preferential
Literary usage of Preferential
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles and Problems of Government by Charles Grove Haines (1921)
"To solve this problem the preferential ballot has been introduced. The preferential
Ballot.—Election by plurality vote is the rule in elections in the ..."
2. Principles and Problems of Government by Charles Grove Haines (1921)
"To solve this problem the preferential ballot has been introduced. The preferential
Ballot.—Election by plurality vote is the rule in elections in the ..."
3. Labour Legislation, Labour Movements, and Labour Leaders by George Howell (1902)
"preferential claims to wages in Scotland were secured in 1856 by 19 and 20 ...
That was a general Act. preferential claims for wages are also provided for ..."
4. A Treatise on the Bankruptcy Law of the United States by Harold Remington (1915)
"Release of Dower in preferential or Fraudulent Mortgage.—A release of dower is
a mere incident to the transfer itself and falls with the fall of the ..."
5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1903)
"preferential tariff's, on the other hand, are essentially Protective in their
tendency, and imply the existence of those barriers within the ..."
6. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1905)
"Papers relating to Resolutions passed by Colonial Legislatures since 1890 in
favour of preferential Trade relations with the United Kingdom, 1905. ..."
7. A Treatise on the Law of Corporate Bonds and Mortgages: Being the 3d Edition by Leonard Augustus Jones (1907)
"Right to apportionment of preferential debts.—A preferential indebtedness incurred
by a receiver of a consolidated line, which receivership is obtained by a ..."
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