Preferring vs Preferred - What's the difference?
preferring | preferred |
(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.}}
As verbs the difference between preferring and preferred
is that preferring is present participle of lang=en while preferred is past tense of prefer.As an adjective preferred is
favoured.As a noun preferred is
preferred stock.preferred
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* (archaic)Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)citation