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preference
English
Alternative forms
- præference (archaic)
Etymology 1
From Middle French preference, from Medieval Latin preferentia. Doublet of preferans.
Morphologically prefer +? -ence.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p??f(?)?(?)ns/
Noun
preference (countable and uncountable, plural preferences)
- The selection of one thing or person over others (with the main adposition being "for" in relation to the thing or person, but possibly also "of")
- He has a preference for crisp wines.
- The option to so select, and the one selected.
- The state of being preferred over others.
- A strong liking or personal valuation.
- A preferential bias; partiality; discrimination.
Synonyms
- forechoice
- (preferential bias): see Thesaurus:predilection
Derived terms
- preference share(s}
- preference stock
Translations
Verb
preference (third-person singular simple present preferences, present participle preferencing, simple past and past participle preferenced)
- (US) To give preferential treatment to; to give a preference to.
See also
- preferences
Etymology 2
Noun
preference (uncountable)
- Preferans, a card game, principally played in Eastern Europe.
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?pr?f?r?nt?s?]
Noun
preference f
- preference (selection of one thing or person over others)
Derived terms
- preferen?ní
Related terms
- See oferta
- preferovat
See also
- up?ednostn?ní
Further reading
- preference in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- preference in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Middle French
Noun
preference f (plural preferences)
- preference (option preferred over another option)
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tendency
English
Etymology
Ultimately from Latin tendere / tend?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t?nd?nsi/
- Hyphenation: ten?den?cy
Noun
tendency (plural tendencies)
- A likelihood of behaving in a particular way or going in a particular direction; a tending toward.
- (politics) An organised unit or faction within a larger political organisation.
- 1974, James Boggs, Grace Lee Boggs, Revolution and Evolution, NYU Press ?ISBN, page 134
- Mao launched the struggle against the vulgar materialist tendency within the party as early as 1937.
- 1997, S. Onslow, Backbench Debate within the Conservative Party and its Influence on British Foreign Policy, 1948-57, Springer ?ISBN, page 234
- In stark contrast to the Europeanist tendency within the party and the Suez Group, this group had a short history.
- 2013, Richard Gillespie, Lourdes Lopez Nieto, Michael Waller, Factional Politics and Democratization, Routledge ?ISBN, page 83
- It reinforced the position of the conformist tendency within the party, since the majority of the candidates were old politicians, many of them members of Papandreou's centre-left CU faction back in the mid-1960s.
- 1974, James Boggs, Grace Lee Boggs, Revolution and Evolution, NYU Press ?ISBN, page 134
Synonyms
- inclination
- disposition
- propensity
- penchant
- trend
Derived terms
- multitendency
Translations
tendency From the web:
- what tendency mean
- what tendency in winston's mother has
- what tendency am i
- what tendency the coin shows
- what does a tendency mean
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