Meaning

2 senses
  1. Of or relating to the showing or giving of preference.

    Club members received preferential seating.

    preferential treatment

  2. Of or relating to a voting system in which the voters are allowed to indicate on their ballots their preference (usually their first and second choices) between two or more candidates, so that if no candidate receives a majority of first choices the one receiving the greatest number of first and second choices together is the winner.

    preferential voting; the preferential system

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More definitions
  • manifesting partiality

Examples

3 sentences
  1. He asked her to give him preferential treatment.

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  2. There is a preferential price for unemployed people and the elderly.

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  3. Create a velvet rope community of preferred customers who get treated like VIPs and get preferential treatment.

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Translations

6 languages
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By meaning 1
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Origin

From Medieval Latin preferentia + -al.

From Medieval Latin preferentia + -al.

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Forms

more preferential, most preferential
Comparativemore preferential Lesson
Superlativemost preferential Lesson

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

11 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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