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Prefer

/[pɹɪˈfɝ]/ verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To be in the habit of choosing something rather than something else; to favor; to like better. transitive

    "I prefer tea to coffee."

  2. 2
    select as an alternative over another wordnet
  3. 3
    To advance, promote (someone or something). dated, transitive

    "So ſhall you haue a ſhorter iourney to your deſires, by the meanes I ſhall then haue to preferre them. And the impediment moſt profitably remoued, without the which there were no expectation of our proſperitie."

  4. 4
    like better; value more highly wordnet
  5. 5
    To present or submit (something) to an authority (now usually in "to prefer charges"). transitive

    "[…], let him go, And preſently preferre his ſuite to Cæſar."

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  1. 6
    promote over another wordnet
  2. 7
    To put forward for acceptance; to introduce, recommend (to). obsolete, transitive

    "one Master David Hume, who making some use of his purse, gave him Letters to his friends in Scotland to preferre him to King Iames."

  3. 8
    give preference to one creditor over another wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English preferren, from Anglo-Norman preferer, from Latin praeferō. Displaced native Old English foresettan and foreberan. Doublet of prelate. See also infer, relate and refer, delate and defer, as well as collate and confer among others.

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