Preferred vs Recommended - What's the difference?
preferred | recommended |
(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.}}
(recommend)
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
As verbs the difference between preferred and recommended
is that preferred is past tense of prefer while recommended is past tense of recommend.As an adjective preferred
is favoured.As a noun preferred
is preferred stock.preferred
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)citation
recommended
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Verb
(head)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
