PREFERENCE


Meaning of PREFERENCE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ prefərəns ]

( preferences)

1.

If you have a preference for something, you would like to have or do that thing rather than something else.

Parents can express a preference for the school their child attends...

Many of these products were bought in preference to their own.

N-VAR : usu N for n

2.

If you give preference to someone with a particular qualification or feature, you choose them rather than someone else.

The Pentagon will give preference to companies which do business electronically.

= priority

N-UNCOUNT : usu N to n

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