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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

... by the united influence of authority, management, and persuasion, succeeded in effecting a rescue. The boy would probably have preferred to owe his safety to any one else than to the teacher whom he had so often tried to tease, but he was glad to escape in any way. The teacher said nothing about the subject, and the boy soon supposed it ...

— The Teacher • Jacob Abbott

... the drainage from the hills met and spread among bushes, so that at one time I almost despaired of extricating the party otherwise than by returning to the hill at which I had first altered my route. The track we made had been however so much cut up by our wheels that I preferred the chance of finding a passage northward which, of course, was also less out of our way. We reached an extremity of the hill (the nearest to us on that side) with much less difficulty than I had reason to apprehend ...

— Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Vol 2 (of 2) • Thomas Mitchell

... if we would take them as passengers, as if this were the street they had missed; that they might sit and chat and drive away the time, and so at last find themselves in Nashua. This smooth way they much preferred. But our boat was crowded with necessary furniture, and sunk low in the water, and moreover required to be worked, for even it did not progress against the stream without effort; so we were obliged to deny them passage. As we glided ...

— A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers • Henry David Thoreau

... important rule in preserving cut flowers is never to cram the vase with flowers. Many will last if only they have a large mass of water in the vase and not too many stalks to feed on the water and pollute it. Vases that can hold a large quantity of water are to be preferred to the spindle-shaped trumpets that are often used. Flat dishes covered with wet sand are also useful for short-stalked or heavy-headed flowers; even partially-withered blooms will revive when placed on this cool moist substance. ...

— The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 354, October 9, 1886 • Various

... who has very decided tastes about the biological man. I know just how I want the creatures to look, and I haven't much interest in one that isn't at least of the type of my preferred kind. Because I am very tall and broad and deep-bosomed and vivid and high colored, and have strong white teeth that crunch up about as much food in the twenty-four hours as most field hands consume, and altogether I am very much like one of the most vigorous ...

— The Heart's Kingdom • Maria Thompson Daviess

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