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UK
/pɹˈɛfɹəns/
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[ US /ˈpɹɛfɝəns, ˈpɹɛfɹəns/ ]
[ US /ˈpɹɛfɝəns, ˈpɹɛfɹəns/ ]
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)
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a strong liking
the Irish have a penchant for blarney
my own preference is for good literature -
a predisposition in favor of something
a predilection for expensive cars
showed a Marxist orientation
his sexual preferences -
the right or chance to choose
given my druthers, I'd eat cake
How To Use preference In A Sentence
- The authors of the second paper admit that “other variables … influence the binding avidity (preference), such as type of SA (sialic acid of the receptor site) and glycosylation and sialylation of the hemagglutinin close to the receptor binding site. †These factors all vary obviously and there are other variables in the equation as well including the status of specific areas of the immune system. Think Progress » An Inconvenient Truth and An Intolerable Summer
- Both names are unobjectionable, but as the term Caddo has priority by a few pages preference is given to it. Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891
- Their preferences ultimately shaped the place of worship that Warren built, and the result of that consumer-driven approach to creating Saddleback is a deliberately contemporary, highly professionalized operation with a carefully orchestrated feel-good atmosphere. American Grace
- But on the gender front, the sex ratio among children up to age 6 dropped to 914 girls for each 1,000 boys from 927 a decade ago, showing that female foeticide continues to be a widespread practice because of a traditional preference in some communities for boys. India Passes 1.2 Billion Mark
- This can be very important since some fish will inhabit silty area in preference to hard bottoms.
- Apparently the section cannot adequately host the interests of both angling and boating fraternities and the boaters have taken preference.
- He was a strong supporter of the doctrine of papal infallibility and he drew up a postulatum in which he favoured a definition by implication in preference to an explicit affirmation of the dogma. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
- It also reveals a preference for debt over equity as a means of providing external funding.
- He spent some time expressing his preference, for tactical reasons, for smaller neutron bombs before developing his argument.
- Or maybe the stories that become "engrained" do so because they satisfy some inner preference? Serendip's Exchange
