Preferred vs Recommended - What's the difference?
preferred | recommended |
(prefer)
(finance) Preferred stock.
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(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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* (archaic)Verb
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(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