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/prəfˈərd/ /prɪfˈərd/ /prifˈərd/ Listen

verb

Prefer v. t. (past & past part. preferred; pres. part. preferring)

1.

To carry or bring (something) forward, or before one; hence, to bring for consideration, acceptance, judgment, etc.; to offer; to present; to proffer; to address; said especially of a request, prayer, petition, claim, charge, etc. "He spake, and to her hand preferred the bowl." "Presently prefer his suit to Caesar." "Three tongues prefer strange orisons on high."

2.

To go before, or be before, in estimation; to outrank; to surpass. (Obs.) "Though maidenhood prefer bigamy."

3.

To cause to go before; hence, to advance before others, as to an office or dignity; to raise; to exalt; to promote; as, to prefer an officer to the rank of general. "I would prefer him to a better place."

4.

To set above or before something else in estimation, favor, or liking; to regard or honor before another; to hold in greater favor; to choose rather; often followed by to, before, or above. "If I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy." "Preferred an infamous peace before a most just war."

Preferred stock, stock which takes a dividend before other capital stock; called also preference stock and preferential stock.

Synonyms: To choose; elect. See Choose.

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Etymology of 'Preferred'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Preferred" Quotes from Famous Books

... enchants the heart of woman. And the major, what did he think? The good Consul was puzzled. The confirmed intimacy between his daughter and his guest alike perplexed and pleased him. He certainly never had become acquainted with a man whom he would sooner have preferred for a son-in-law, if he had only known who he was. But two months, and more than two months, had elapsed, and threw no light upon this most necessary point of knowledge. The Consul hesitated as to his conduct. His anxiety almost mastered his good ...

— Sketches • Benjamin Disraeli

... next day, as he had promised, and took Aladdin with him to a merchant, who sold all sorts of clothes for different ages and ranks ready made, and a variety of fine stuffs, and bade Aladdin choose those he preferred, which he paid for. ...

— The Junior Classics, V5 • Edited by William Patten

... their captain, and was informed by him, upon his inquiries after his fortune, that, half an hour after their separation, the Spaniards came upon them, and easily seized upon the wounded captain; but that his companion might have escaped with him, had he not preferred money to life; for, seeing him throw down a box of jewels that retarded him, he could not forbear taking it up, and with that, and the gold which he had already, was so loaded that he could not escape. With regard to the bars of gold and silver, which they had concealed in ...

— The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 6 - Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons • Samuel Johnson

... considered it necessary to prove that if Cabot's landfall were Cape North he could not have discovered the low lying shore of Prince Edward Island on the same day. I have preferred to show that Prince Edward Island was not known as an island and did not appear on any map for one hundred years after John Cabot's death. If Cabot had possessed a modern map, and had been looking for Prince Edward Island, and had pushed ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 8 - The Later Renaissance: From Gutenberg To The Reformation • Editor-in-Chief: Rossiter Johnson

... Alfieri; that she had called Mme. de Stael, Sismondi's goddess, about whom he was for ever expatiating, "a mad woman who always wants to inspire passions, and feels nothing, and makes her readers feel nothing" (I am quoting from an unpublished letter at Siena); that she preferred despotism on the whole to liberty, and had no particular belief or interest in the heroic things of the present and future; that she was a lover of gossip and scandal, sometimes (as Gino Capponi says) hard and ...

— The Countess of Albany • Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)

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