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