PREFERENCE

[noun]Her preference is for comfortable rather than smart clothes. [U]Do you have a preference for sweet or for spicy food? [C]What are your preferences in music. [C]It would be wrong to discriminate against a candidate because of their sexual preference (= the sex of the people they are sexually attracted to). [U]A preference is also an advantage which is given to a person or a group of people.Special preferences were offered initially to encourage investment. [C]We give preference to those who have worked with us for a long time. [U]He studied chemistry in preference to (= rather than) physics at university.