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Definition: Preferential |
PreferentialAdjective1. Manifesting partiality; "a discriminatory tax"; "preferential tariff rates"; "preferential treatment"; "a preferential shop gives priority or advantage to union members in hiring or promoting". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "preferential" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| PROX | English | Preferential oxidation | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: PreferentialSynonym: discriminatory (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Choice | Eclectic; choosing; Verb: preferential; chosen; Verb: choice; (good). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Preferential |
| English words defined with "preferential": discriminatory ♦ preferentially, Preferred stock. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "preferential": Bilateral trade agreement, Biomagnification ♦ Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act of 1983, Caribbean Basin Initiative, Chymopapain, cyanometry ♦ Differential assessment ♦ extraction by means of selective solvents ♦ Ficain ♦ General Tariff ♦ ligação ♦ Microscopy, Polarization ♦ Nimodipine, North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act ♦ ordered solid solution ♦ parity clause, plane shear, pre-emption right, preemptive subscription right, preferential flotation, preferential share, Preferential trade agreements, Preferred Country ♦ spectral hardening, stockholder's pre-emptive right, subsurface corrosion ♦ Urinary Plasminogen Activator. (references) |
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Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | In the event of Germany granting a preferential regime to any of the Allied or Associated Powers or to any other foreign Power, this regime shall be extended immediately and unconditionally to all the Allied and Associated Powers. (reference) |
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Health | Within the central nervous system (CNS), there is preferential viral budding from plasma membranes. (references) | |
Business | A certificate of origin is needed to take advantage of NAFTA preferential duties. (references) | |
Only North American products, as defined by the rules of origin, are eligible for preferential tariff treatment. (references) | ||
Cesky Telecom has set up Internet 2000 preferential tariffs which have different prices during peak and off-peak times. (references) | ||
Children | Swaziland | There has been no progress on legislation that would give preferential treatment to persons with disabilities for building access and other needs; however, all new government buildings under construction include improvements for those with disabilities, including accessibility ramps. (references) |
Yemen | The infant mortality rate in 1999 was 75 deaths per 1,000 births, down from 105 per 1,000 in 1998. Male children receive preferential treatment over female children; after the age of a year, male children have a 12 percent greater chance of survival than females, a result of the comparative neglect of female children. (references) | |
Vietnam | It includes provisions for preferential treatment of firms that recruit persons with disabilities for training or apprenticeship and a special levy on firms that do not employ workers with disabilities. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Burma | The State also provides some utilities, such as electricity, at preferential rates to recognized organizations. (references) |
Peru | The Freedom of Conscience Institute (PROLIBCO), an NGO that favors strict separation between church and state and opposes the preferential treatment accorded to the Catholic religion, claims that the Government discriminates against non-Catholic groups by requiring payment of import duties and a sales tax on Bibles brought into the country. (references) | |
Chile | Church and state are officially separate; however, the Roman Catholic Church continues to receive some preferential treatment. (references) | |
Economic History | Guyana | Guyana enjoys preferential treatment of its imports to the U.S. under the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI). (references) |
Guyana | Guyana currently enjoys preferential terms of trade with several nations, including the U.S. and Canada, as well as with the European Union. (references) | |
Mauritius | Through its membership of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the Southern African Development Community (SADC), and the Indian Ocean Commission (IOC), Mauritius offers preferential access to a market of 350 million consumers. (references) | |
Human Rights | Malaysia | The suits stemmed from an article in which Param and former Malaysian Bar Council President Tommy Thomas argued that certain companies, law firms and individuals enjoyed improper preferential treatment in the courts. (references) |
Malaysia | In recent years, a number of high-profile cases cast doubts on judicial impartiality and independence, and raised questions of arbitrary verdicts, selective prosecution, and preferential treatment of some litigants and lawyers. (references) | |
Philippines | Some prominent prisoners and jailed celebrities receive preferential treatment. (references) | |
Minorities | Vietnam | The Government continued to implement policies designed to narrow the gap in the standard of living between ethnic groups living in the highlands and richer, lowland ethnic majority Vietnamese (Kinh) by granting preferential treatment to domestic and foreign companies that invest in highland areas. (references) |
Chad | During the year, the Government exhibited a pattern of discrimination in selectively separating injured northerners, especially Zaghawa, from southerners for treatment, with the Zaghawa given preferential medical treatment, including evacuation abroad. (references) | |
Malaysia | Such preferential programs and policies limit opportunities for non-Malays in higher education, government employment, business permits and licenses, and ownership of land. (references) | |
Political Economy | GHANA | Firms involved in exports enjoy some fiscal incentives such as tax holidays and preferential tax/duty treatment on imported capital equipment. (references) |
Belize | The agricultural sector is heavily dependent upon preferential access to export markets for sugar and for bananas. (references) | |
Sudan | There also were reports that Muslims receive preferential treatment for the limited services provided by the Government, including access to medical care. (references) | |
Trade | Cape Verde | Membership in Free Trade Arrangements: Cape Verde is a member of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and it benefits from the Generalized System of Preferences and the Lomé Convention, thus providing investors with preferential access to West Africa, the United States and Europe. (references) |
Burma | After joining ASEAN in 1997, Burma took measures to comply with the ASEAN Common Effective Preferential Tariff Scheme (CEPT). (references) | |
Argentina | Longer terms and preferential rates may be obtained under an EXIM program designed to support U.S. environmental exports. (references) | |
Travel | Taiwan | Many operators have offered preferential rates or package sales. (references) |
Women | Cuba | The law also grants working mothers preferential access to goods and services. (references) |
Korea | Nevertheless some government agencies' preferential hiring of applicants with military service (nearly always men) leads to continued legal barriers against women. (references) | |
Worker Rights | China | Economic Development and Protection of Cultural Heritage Tibetans, as one of China's 55 minority ethnic groups, receive preferential treatment in marriage and family planning policies, and, to a lesser extent, in university admissions and government employment. (references) |
China | A 1999 ICFTU report contended that mediation efforts often are preferential to employers and largely are ineffective in advocating worker rights. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Preferential" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Preferential" is used about 312 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 312 | 16,340 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "preferential": give preferential treatment ♦ have preferential over ♦ preferential abuser ♦ preferential answering ♦ preferential claim ♦ preferential etch ♦ preferential lane ♦ preferential rate ♦ preferential rate of interest ♦ preferential right ♦ preferential share ♦ preferential shop ♦ preferential stock ♦ preferential tariff ♦ preferential treatment ♦ preferential union shop ♦ preferential voting. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "preferential": non-preferential. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "preferential"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | preferencial, zgjedhës (constituent, elector, selective), i privilegjuar (preferred), i favorizuar (favored, favoured). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تفضيلي, تمييزي (discriminatory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | привилегирован (chartered, favored, favoured, privileged), ползуващ се с предпочитание, ползуващ се с предимство. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 优先, 優 (favorable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | přednostní (prior). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | privilegeret gæld (preferential claim, senior debt), praeferencesats (preferential rate, prime rate), præferencesukker (preferential sugar), præferenceordning (preferential customs tariff, preferential tariff), præferencebeløb (preferential amount), vognbane der er forbeholdt bestemte køretøjer (exclusive lane, preferential lane, reserved traffic lane), undersøgelse af børns visuelle diskriminering (preferential looking), selektiv aetsning (oxide etch, preferential etch), særpris (preferential price), foretrukken tarif (preferential tariff), beskatning til en gunstig sats (to be taxed at a preferential rate), anisotropisk aetsning (anisotropic etch, preferential etch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | preferentieel recht (preferential rate), persoon met pedofiele voorkeur (preferential abuser), preferente schuld (preferential debt, privileged debt), preferentiële ets (anisotropic etch, oxide etch, preferential etch), preferentieel aardgastarief (preferential pricing system for natural gas), preferentiele invoer in de EEG (preferential access), preferentiele marge (margin of preferences, preferential margin), Prime rate (preferential rate, prime rate), preferentiele suiker (preferential sugar), preferentiebedrag (preferential amount), voorkeurtarief (preferential customs tariff, preferential tariff), anisotrope ets (anisotropic etch, preferential etch), belastingsheffing tegen een preferentieel tarief (to be taxed at a preferential rate), bevoorrechte schuld (preferential debt, privileged debt), bevoorrechte schuldeiser (preferential claim, preferential debt, senior debt), gereserveerde rijstrook (exclusive lane, preferential lane, reserved traffic lane), voorrecht van de verkoper van niet-betaalde roerende goederen (preferential right of a seller of movables that have not been payed for), voorkeurstarief (preferential rate, preferential tariff, prime rate, protective tariff), algemeen, niet-discriminatoir en niet-wederkerig preferentiesysteem (generalized, non-discriminatory, non-reciprocal preferential treatment), voorkeurprijs (preferential price), vordering met voorrechten (preferential debt), voorkeur (preference, preferential answering), methode van de voorkeursblik (preferential looking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | ممتاز (Ditinct, Elite, Excellent, Good, Illustrious, Immense, Knockout, Prize, Superior), مقدم (Antecedent, First, Premier(Re), Previous, Prior), ترجیحی , امتیازی (Patent), امتیازدهنده . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | etuoikeutettu (privileged). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | préférentiel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | bevorzugt (precedented, preferentially, preferred, prefers, privileged, vantaged). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | προνομιακόσ (of privilege), προτιμητόσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kedvezményes (apex, apices, referential). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | preferenziale. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 優先的 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ゆうせ"てき. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 우 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | foayragh (favourable, propitious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eferentialpray privilegiado (chartered, gifted, preference, prerogative, privileged), preferencial. (various references) preferenţial (discriminating). (various references) льготный (cut-rate). (various references) prioritetni, preferencijalan (preferred), povlašćen (prerogative, privileged). (various references) privilegiado (preferred, prerogative, priveleged, privileged), preferente (preference, prior, sooner). (various references) företrädes-. (various references) tercihli (preferred), imtiyazlı (granted, licensed, prerogative, privileged), ayrıcalıklı (at liberty, concessionairy, exclusive, favored, favoured, immune, inner, prerogative, privileged, special), öncelikli (indispensable, of first priority, of top priority, predecessor, preferred, prior, privileged, underlying). (various references) селективний (discriminatory, selective), що ма" перевагу, кращий (better, forward, preferable, superior), пільговий, привілейований (chartered, favored, favoured, preferred, privileged). (various references) d nh ưu tiên cho; được ưu đâi, ưu đâi, được ưu tiên (preferred). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "preferential": preferentially. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "preferential": nonpreferential. (additional references) | |
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"Preferential" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: praesentia, precedential, preferentem. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "preferential" (pronounced pre'fere"nkhul or pre'fere"nshul) |
| 8 | -e' f er e" n kh u l | deferential. |
| 7 | -f er e" n kh u l | differential. |
| 6 | -er e" n kh u l | reverential. |
| 5 | -e" n kh u l | consequential, credential, existential, exponential, inconsequential, influential, nonessential, presidential, providential, prudential, residential, sequential, tangential, torrential. |
| 4 | -n kh u l | circumstantial, insubstantial, substantial. |
| 3 | -kh u l | bestial, celestial, hatchel, nuptial. |
| 5 | -e" n sh u l | confidential, essential, experiential, jurisprudential, nonresidential, potential, quintessential. |
| 4 | -n sh u l | financial, interprovincial, nonfinancial, provincial. |
| 3 | -sh u l | antisocial, artificial, beneficial, biracial, bushel, commercial, controversial, crucial, facial, glacial, impartial, inertial, infomercial, initial, interracial, judicial, Marshal, Marshall, martial, multiracial, noncommercial, noncontroversial, nonracial, official, palatial, partial, Paschal, prejudicial, prenuptial, racial, sacrificial, social, spatial, special, superficial, uncontroversial, unofficial. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-f-i-l-n-p-r-r-t" | |
-1 letter: referential. | |
-2 letters: terreplein. | |
-3 letters: interfere, reinflate. | |
-4 letters: aperient, elaterin, entailer, falterer, featlier, filterer, firetrap, flanerie, inflater, interlap, lateener, nearlier, palterer, paltrier, pearlier, pearlite, pelerine, perineal, petaline, pilferer, prerenal, pretrain, pretrial, referent, refilter, relearnt, repartee, repealer, repeater, repenter, rerepeat, retailer, retainer, tapeline, terrapin, trapline, treenail, triplane. | |
-5 letters: alerter, alienee, aliener, alterer, arenite, atelier, earlier, elapine, enteral. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-f-i-l-n-p-r-r-t" | |
+2 letters: preferentially. | |
+3 letters: nonpreferential. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 72 65 66 65 72 65 6E 74 69 61 6C |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01110010 01100101 01100110 01100101 01110010 01100101 01101110 01110100 01101001 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P r e f e r e n t i a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0072 0065 0066 0065 0072 0065 006E 0074 0069 0061 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)508471727184718086756778 |
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