adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
access
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In addition, a bureaucratic agency may be given preferential access to some inputs, such as land, through planning legislation, for example.
rate
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Those who pay the standard variable rate are subsidising the preferential rates enjoyed by other more cost-conscious borrowers.
treatment
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De Klerk insisted that such a system would not provide for preferential treatment for any group at the expense of any other.
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In cases of race and gender bias, such decrees often have produced quotas and preferential treatment for the aggrieved party.
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It is not as though regular blood donors receive preferential treatment when they come to need a transfusion.
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Does he agree that that will lead to preferential treatment for private patients and creeping privatisation?
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Why should jazz get preferential treatment ?
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Perhaps you are ignoring your existing pet, and giving preferential treatment to the newcomer?
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It was made clear that trade would be at international prices, with no subsidies or preferential treatment .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Bank officials denied giving the senator any preferential treatment.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And zero shareholders have preferential rights to trusts' assets when they are wound up.
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De Klerk insisted that such a system would not provide for preferential treatment for any group at the expense of any other.
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For this species also, therefore, preferential destruction of upper and lower jaws is indicated.
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It was made clear that trade would be at international prices, with no subsidies or preferential treatment.
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Of course, family allowances, tax benefits and preferential housing allocation are all designed to ease the cost of dependent children.
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Once joint prospects arc more securely fastened, even more preferential trading terms can be secured.
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This measures any preferential loss of distal limb elements.