0 the fact that you like something or someone more than another thing or person:
Her preference is for comfortable rather than stylish clothes.
Choosing furniture is largely a matter of personal preference.
It would be wrong to discriminate against a candidate because of their sexual preference (= the sex of the people they are sexually attracted to).
We give preference to those who have worked with us for a long time.
Special preferences were offered initially to encourage investment.
He studied chemistry in preference to physics at university.
1 A preference is also an advantage given to someone:
[ U ] The city gives preference to job applicants who live there.
2 the fact of liking or wanting one thing more than another:
3 an advantage or better treatment that is given to a person or a group of people:
4 used to describe a company's shares that have the right to fixed dividends (= payments from profits) before the dividends on its ordinary shares are calculated and paid in a particular period, or in periods when dividends on these shares are not paid at all:
Preference will be given to material which is clearly interdisciplinary.
Repeating this process with a sample group permits the efficient collection of a substantial data set concerning underlying preferences.
We emphasize the need to assume uniformity of extended preferences among individual observers; otherwise, the ordinary utilitarian formula cannot be derived.
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偏愛, 愛好, 喜愛…
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好み, (選択肢の中の)希望のもの…
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tercih, yeğleme…
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préférence [feminine], préférence…
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