[ UK /pɹɪfˈɜːmənt/ ]
NOUN
  1. the act of making accusations
    preferment of charges
  2. the act of preferring
    the preferment went to the younger candidate
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How To Use preferment In A Sentence

  • I think they are more in touch with the part of their organisation that will provide them with preferment in their party.
  • And there were occasional cracks in gentry solidarity — especially when opportunity for preferment presented itself. Gutenber-e Help Page
  • The most credible left wing candidates for succession or preferment would not change much of the last manifesto.
  • Although he had previously opposed royal policies, he was a believer in firm government and accepted preferment in order to uphold the king's power.
  • A notable pluralist, he received lucrative ecclesiastical preferments from the king, including prebends in six cathedrals, pensions, and livings.
  • Others are discommoded because a constituency colleague has won preferment.
  • The man was evidently consumed by ambition, highly interested in pelf and preferment, and a natural Tory who defended the slave trade and imperialism, which Adam Smith so much deplored. Triumph at Trafalgar
  • Sentences "and the" Summa Theologica "stood a better chance of preferment than he who had mastered Saint Paul. Beacon Lights of History
  • For some the door is the threshold to still greater fame and preferment; for others, it's the open jaws of the political crematorium. THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
  • The media love this sort of stuff - and a network of opportunists in the bureaucracy can always be found to present their future masters with the hard evidence in the hopes of future preferment.
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