Synonym: druthers, orientation, penchant, predilection, taste. Similar words: reference, difference, conference, make a difference, refer, different, interfere, inherent. Meaning: ['prefərəns] 
n. 1. a strong liking 2. a predisposition in favor of something 3. the right or chance to choose 4. grant of favor or advantage to one over another (especially to a country or countries in matters of international trade, such as levying duties).
n. 1. a strong liking 2. a predisposition in favor of something 3. the right or chance to choose 4. grant of favor or advantage to one over another (especially to a country or countries in matters of international trade, such as levying duties). 
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121 Price powered home on the first count with 465 first preference votes, but Beth mustered only 11.
122 As it was Britain's shift to protectionism and Imperial Preference provoked much criticism from Washington.
123 There are often pragmatic reasons for the preference of certain types of conjunction and the frequency with which conjunctions are used in general.
124 As the foragers grow older they move from a juvenile taste for sweet nectar to a more refined preference for pollen.
125 Hanson skilfully exploited the system of proportional representation, which asks voters to list candidates in order of preference.
126 Different criteria of mate preference develop in different cultures at different times.
127 Last year the court narrowed the scope of affirmative action programs that give minorities preference in such matters as employment and education. Sentencedict.com
128 It is now a matter of personal preference as to whether you use loose tea of speciality tea-bags.
129 Peter Brabeck, Nestle chief executive, has shown a preference for pet food over people food.
130 Consumer Research and Electronic Commerce Evaluating customer preference is the main uncertainty facing application designers.
131 However, the 1980 Act requires parental preference to be granted unless one of the exceptions applies.
132 Nevertheless, in terms of the rights which attach, redeemable preference shares are more akin to debt than shares.
133 Wherever possible non-destructive approaches outlined earlier should be used to meet research objectives in preference to excavation.
134 Preference will be given to those presenting papers at the congress.
135 I do not now allude to preference though of course that comes first.
136 His mother - whose preference for himself, devotion to himself, he had always taken for granted.
137 A preference for long walks and tennis over jogging or weight training.
138 Bourdieu implies the same Romantic preference for the work ethic and antipathy towards abstraction as Veblen.
139 The phenomenon of liquidity preference can find no place in a model that admits of only one asset, fiat money.
140 He found the animals to have a marked preference for woodland borders where they would build their communal nests.
141 It is widely expected that bondholders will then be asked to convert some of their holdings into a new convertible preference share.
142 In this way they may indicate a preference as to which particular difficulty will be addressed first.
143 The continuing, and heated, judicial debate on racial preference indicates that the ultimate outcome of this controversy remains in doubt.
144 This is simply the result of a downward sloping liquidity preference curve.
145 The more elastic the liquidity preference curve, the more idle balances will fall.
146 However, most national politicians and local councillors share the civil service preference for the functional and centralized system based on Whitehall.
147 Both are effective and it's really a matter of personal preference which you choose.
148 The bias means that the favoured areas is given preference.
149 Choose him in preference to her own work once again?
150 The preference for directives as opposed to regulations for environmental matters has also been repeatedly expressed.
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