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Definition of Preference

1. Noun. A strong liking. "The Irish have a penchant for blarney"

2. Noun. A predisposition in favor of something. "Showed a Marxist orientation"

3. Noun. The right or chance to choose. "Given my druthers, I'd eat cake"

4. Noun. Grant of favor or advantage to one over another (especially to a country or countries in matters of international trade, such as levying duties).

Definition of Preference

1. n. The act of Preferring, or the state of being preferred; the setting of one thing before another; precedence; higher estimation; predilection; choice; also, the power or opportunity of choosing; as, to give him his preference.

Definition of Preference

1. Noun. The selection of one thing or person over others. ¹

2. Noun. The option to so select, and the one selected. ¹

3. Noun. The state of being preferred over others. ¹

4. Noun. A strong liking or personal valuation. ¹

5. Noun. A preferential bias; partiality; discrimination. ¹

6. Noun. Preferans, a card game, principally played in Eastern Europe. ¹

7. Verb. (American English) To give preferential treatment to; to give a preference to. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Preference

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Preference

prefectural prefecture prefectures prefecundation prefeminism prefeminist prefer preferabilities preferability preferable

preferableness preferably preferans preferations prefered preference (current term) preference shares preferenced preferences preferencing

preferential preferentiality preferentially preferer preferers prefering preferist preferists preferment preferments

Literary usage of Preference

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"preference as to time of trial In the court«, In suits on debts contracted after a certain date, and the Insolvent debtor gave his son and niece new notes ..."

2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"The right of preference in the selection of trainmen to man certain trains, acquired under an existing regulation by certain trainmen by virtue of their ..."

3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1916)
"The observer was instructed to isolate the colors from everything as far as possible and to choose them in their order of preference for ' color's sake ..."

4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1904)
"time oí giving an alleged preference, and whether the creditor bad reasonable cause to believe that It was Intended thereby to give a preference, ..."

5. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1905)
"preference IN NEW ZEALAND.* IN November 1903 the Parliament of New Zealand ... This clause, if acted upon, would obviously terminate the preference granted ..."

6. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"By choice, with preference of one 14 another. To talk of compelling a man to be good, is a contradiction; for where there is force, there can be no choice: ..."

7. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1907)
"(4) In determining that the bank was liable for the value and moneys it received as a preference, although the trustee nad not elected to avoid such ..."

8. Annual ReportLabor laws and legislation (1906)
"preference TO LOCAL LABOR. § 13. preference in employment of persons upon public works.—In the construction of public works by the state or a municipality, ..."

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