0 to like someone or something more than another person or thing -- preferir
1 used to say what you want or ask someone what they want -- se usa para expresar una preferencia
2 to like or want sth more than others -- preferir
On the text as a whole we would undoubtedly have preferred clearer drafting on this or that point.
I would prefer to be less prescriptive in terms of deadlines.
However, we realise that just continually protesting will not suffice: we prefer to act.
Many guerrilla movements even prefer child soldiers to fully-grown combatants.
I should have preferred him to have listened to them.
I would have preferred the entire folly of that waste to have been overturned.
