Preference vs Preferment - What's the difference?
preference | preferment |
The selection of one thing or person over others.
The option to so select, and the one selected.
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A strong liking or personal valuation.
A preferential bias; partiality; discrimination.
Preferans, a card game, principally played in Eastern Europe.
(US) To give preferential treatment to; to give a preference to.
(obsolete) The fact of being pushed or advanced to a more favourable situation; furtherance, promotion (of a candidate, action, undertaking etc.).
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*:A mind warranted from prejudice, hath a marvellous preferment to tranquility.
Advancement to a higher position or office; promotion.
A position (especially in the Church of England) that provides profit or prestige.
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As nouns the difference between preference and preferment
is that preference is the selection of one thing or person over others while preferment is prior claim (on payment, or on purchasing something); the first rights to obtain a particular payment or product.As a verb preference
is to give preferential treatment to; to give a preference to.preference
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* (archaic)Noun
(Preferans) (en noun)Obama's once hip brand is now tainted, passage=Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.}}