Recommend vs Preferred - What's the difference?
recommend | preferred |
To bestow commendation on; to represent favourably; to suggest, endorse or encourage as an appropriate choice.
To make acceptable; to attract favor to.
To advise, propose, counsel favorably
(archaic) To commit, confide to another's care, confidence or acceptance, with favoring representations
(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 recommend and preferred
is that recommend is to bestow commendation on; to represent favourably; to suggest, endorse or encourage as an appropriate choice while preferred is past tense of prefer.As an adjective preferred is
favoured.As a noun preferred is
preferred stock.recommend
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Verb
(en verb)- The board recommends Philips, given his ample experience in similar positions.
- The therapist recommends resting the mind and exercising the body.
- ''A medieval oblate's parents recommended the boy for life to God and the monastery
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . SeeSynonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* discourage * disapprove * opposeDerived terms
* recommendable * recommendatory * recommended * recommenderAnagrams
* English reporting verbspreferred
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)citation