Word Finder - preferred

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

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I prefer tea to coffee.

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To advance, promote (someone or something).

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To present or submit (something) to an authority (now usually in "to prefer charges").

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To put forward for acceptance; to introduce, recommend (to).

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Preferred stock.

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Favoured

The house was quiet, the way he preferred it.

He preferred the direct approach over any form of subtlety.

In the case of a lawsuit the plaintiff preferred his own plea.

She was getting used to the water and it felt good, but she would have preferred a swim in the ocean.

He preferred land wars to the space wars and had been returning to the main craft when the ambush occurred.

Either he hadn't seen her or he preferred not to mention it.

Better. I have a preferred outcome, one that involves you surviving and the soul embedded in your head not.

He preferred to know she was alive and well—and somewhere else.

But for my part, I preferred the solitary dwelling.

He could buy an assassination, but part of him preferred the idea of handling family matters within the family.

He preferred his life much simpler than it already was.

It always pains me to see some preferred outcomes involving the innocent.

He'd roamed the palace that was his home many times before returning to live out of the tiny cabin he preferred in the Everdark forest.

While I preferred not to toss a wet blanket on her quest, I remained far more pragmatic.

Normally, she'd leave before it got too crowded; her father preferred she avoided people altogether.

He walked farther than she preferred before disappearing into a dark crevice.

A few days later Nuncomar was thrown into prison on a charge of forgery preferred by a private prosecutor, tried before the supreme court sitting in bar, found guilty by a jury of Englishmen and sentenced to be hanged.

He preferred his solitary life.

However, when I have thought to indulge myself in this respect, and lay their Heaven under an obligation by maintaining certain poor persons in all respects as comfortably as I maintain myself, and have even ventured so far as to make them the offer, they have one and all unhesitatingly preferred to remain poor.

He preferred this idea, except that it would mean he.d be defending her from Dark One.s minions and demons every minute of the rest of their lives together.

If popular models were an accurate indication, people preferred tall women.

Sometimes it was difficult to accept that he actually preferred this lifestyle.

He preferred that Englishmen should be free rather than sober by compulsion.

Southern customers objected to its blue color, which is the evidence of its purity, as if it were muddy, and preferred the Cambridge ice, which is white, but tastes of weeds.

As Shinshin had remarked, from the time of his arrival Anatole had turned the heads of the Moscow ladies, especially by the fact that he slighted them and plainly preferred the gypsy girls and French actresses--with the chief of whom, Mademoiselle George, he was said to be on intimate relations.

But no, he has preferred to surround himself with my enemies, and with whom?

But as food was too precious to be given to foreigners, who were for the most part enemies, Napoleon preferred to supply them with money with which to purchase food from outside, and had paper rubles distributed to them.

Both were on the courses he laid out for them, though that was not always an indication his preferred outcome was inevitable.

He joined Dean at the kitchen table although Cynthia would have preferred having her private domain to herself.

Philip Carteret first observed this settlement in May 1767, and on account of the hostility of the Spaniards preferred to put in at Masa-Fuera.

Collier preferred the version of the Book of Common Prayer issued in 1549, and regretted that certain practices and petitions there enjoined were omitted in later editions.

The Italian general would have preferred to wait until his intervention was requested Opcra dons in by both pretenders to the Abyssinian throne.

But the first expression is to be preferred, all the more because it has been.

But now, at the commencement of the campaign, I should feel dishonored, not only in my comrades' eyes but in my own, if I preferred my own happiness to my love and duty to the Fatherland.

She preferred her studio at Fairhaven, and did most of her artwork there; it simply could not fit all her work.

Given more time, he'd have preferred to put the bike on the car's rack and chew up some countryside miles, tour­ing the hills and farm lands that surrounded Parkside.

Abisares preferred to play a double game and wait upon events.

Harpsichords had long been preferred at the tertia minore.

Oils are powerful fuels, but the high price of refined petroleum, the oil generally preferred, precludes its widespread use for many purposes for which it is suitable.

Instead of facing the difficulties, the president preferred to put off the day of reckoning by flooding the country with inconvertible notes, with the result that the financial crisis became more and more aggravated.

He almost preferred the idea of death at Czerno's hands to the mayhem his wards caused.

He preferred to know she was alive and well—and somewhere else.

Although he could influence them to willingly let him feed by merely making eye contact, he preferred to seduce his conquests to want him as desperately as he craved their blood.

Organized tours provided sag wagons—vehi­cles to haul luggage from one overnight stop to another—but Dean preferred carrying his own gear rather than taking time to sift through a thousand sets of belongings nightly.

In such circumstances, reactors with a large surface area and surface aerators are more appropriate, and lagoon systems are preferred.

In the hospitals, death was so certain that soldiers suffering from fever, or the swelling that came from bad food, preferred to remain on duty, and hardly able to drag their legs went to the front rather than to the hospitals.

However, if attacked by Others, he preferred to level everything around them than take the chance he was the only one killed.

The term tertia minore, or inferiore, is used by Praetorius to describe a low pitch, often preferred in England and the Netherlands, in Italy and in some parts of Germany.

In 1613 he led a large army against his persecutor, on whose murder by two of his officers that year Bethlen was placed on the throne by the Porte, in opposition to the wishes of the emperor, who preferred a prince who would incline more towards Vienna than towards Constantinople.

On the 3rd of May the Czech Catholics elected Matthias king of Bohemia, but this was contrary to the wishes of both pope and emperor, who preferred to partition Bohemia.