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Preferential   Listen
adjective
Preferential  adj.  Giving, indicating, or having a preference or precedence; as, a preferential claim; preferential shares.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... the subsidizing of steamships and the search for world markets which have since resulted in a total foreign trade equal to one-fourth that of the United States. By '97 she was almost ready for the preferential tariff reduction of from twenty-five to thirty-three per cent. on British goods which the Laurier government later introduced, and she had established her right to negotiate commercial treaties with foreign powers independent of the Mother Country. By 1907 she was in the very maelstrom of ...
— The Canadian Commonwealth • Agnes C. Laut



Words linked to "Preferential" :   discriminatory



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