Preferred vs Encouraged - What's the difference?
preferred | encouraged |
(prefer)
(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
, passage=Naturally, closed-end funds’ common shareholders love the juice that auction-rate preferreds provide.}}
(encourage)
To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.
To spur on, strongly recommend.
To foster, give help or patronage
As verbs the difference between preferred and encouraged
is that preferred is (prefer) while encouraged is (encourage).As an adjective preferred
is favoured.As a noun preferred
is (finance) preferred stock.preferred
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)citation
encouraged
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Verb
(head)encourage
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Verb
(encourag)- I encouraged him during his race.
- We encourage the use of bicycles in the town centre.
- ''The royal family has always encouraged the arts in word and deed
