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Preferred vs Advantageous - What's the difference?

preferred | advantageous |

As adjectives the difference between preferred and advantageous

is that preferred is favoured while advantageous is being of advantage, beneficial.

As a verb preferred

is (prefer).

As a noun preferred

is (finance) preferred stock.

preferred

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Verb

(head)
  • (prefer)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • favoured

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (finance) Preferred stock.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=March 30, author=Gretchen Morgenson, title=If You Can’t Sell, Good Luck, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Naturally, closed-end funds’ common shareholders love the juice that auction-rate preferreds provide.}}

    advantageous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Being of advantage, beneficial
  • * 1900 , Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim Chapter 32
  • *:Jim took up an advantageous position and shepherded them out in a bunch through the doorway.

    • Synonyms

    * gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; behooveful

    Derived terms

    * advantageously