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"word": "preferred creditor"
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"word": "preferred stock"
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{
"text": "I prefer tea to coffee.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "I'd prefer it if you didn't do it.",
"type": "example"
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{
"ref": "c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 15, column 2:",
"text": "You that will be leſſe fearefull, then diſcreet,\n That loue the fundamentall part of State\n More then you doubt the change on’t: That preferre\n A Noble life, before a Long,[…]",
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"ref": "1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:",
"text": "\"My tastes,\" he said, still smiling, \"incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet.\" And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: \"I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;[…].\"",
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"ref": "2019 February 26, James Graham, Adam Johnson, “The Return of the Inexplicable Republican Best Friend”, in FAIR.org:",
"text": "You don’t attack politicians because you prefer them; you attack them because you’re scared of them.",
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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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"habit",
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"choosing",
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],
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"(transitive) To be in the habit of choosing something rather than something else; to favor; to like better."
],
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "faḍḍala",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "فَضَّلَ"
},
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"code": "ar",
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"roman": "ʔāṯara",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "آثَرَ"
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"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "naxəntrel",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "նախընտրել"
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"sense": "to favor",
"word": "üstün tutmaq"
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"sense": "to favor",
"word": "tərcih etmək"
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"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "nahiago izan"
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"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "nahitu"
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"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "addavácʹ pjerjeváhu",
"sense": "to favor",
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"word": "аддава́ць перева́гу"
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"roman": "addácʹ pjerjeváhu",
"sense": "to favor",
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"word": "адда́ць перева́гу"
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"roman": "predpočítam",
"sense": "to favor",
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"word": "предпочи́там"
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"sense": "to favor",
"word": "preferir"
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "estimar-se més"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "比較喜歡"
},
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"_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "bǐjiào xǐhuan",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "比较喜欢"
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"lang": "Cornish",
"note": "with subject and object reversed",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "bos gwell gans"
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "upřednostňovat"
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "dát přednost"
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"sense": "to favor",
"word": "preferovat"
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"sense": "to favor",
"word": "foretrække"
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"roman": "aan",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "(de) voorkeur geven"
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "to favor",
"word": "verkiezen (boven)"
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"sense": "to favor",
"word": "prefereren"
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"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to favor",
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"word": "pliŝati"
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"sense": "to favor",
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "pitää parempana"
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"sense": "to favor",
"word": "préférer"
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"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "mǯobineba",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "მჯობინება"
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"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "uṗiraṭesobis minič̣eba",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "უპირატესობის მინიჭება"
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"sense": "to favor",
"word": "vorziehen"
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"sense": "to favor",
"word": "bevorzugen"
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"word": "präferieren"
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"roman": "protimáo",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "προτιμάω"
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"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "protimáō",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "προτιμάω"
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"roman": "proairéō",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "προαιρέω"
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"roman": "prokrínō",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "προκρίνω"
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"_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
"code": "ht",
"lang": "Haitian Creole",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "pito"
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{
"_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
"code": "haw",
"lang": "Hawaiian",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "makemake"
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"_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "he'edíf",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "הֶעֱדִיף"
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"_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "pasand karnā",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "पसंद करना"
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"_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "szívesebben (tesz)"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "jobban szeret/tetszik"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "előnyben részesít"
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"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"note": "with subject and object reversed",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "is fearr le"
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"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "preferire"
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"sense": "to favor",
"word": "favorire"
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"alt": "…のほうをこのむ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "...no hō o konomu",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "…の方を好む"
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"_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
"alt": "…のほうがすきである",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "... no hō ga suki de aru",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "…の方が好きである"
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"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "coul cət",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "ចូលចិត្ត"
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"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "-deo joahada",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "더 좋아하다"
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"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "seonhohada",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "선호(選好)하다"
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"code": "la",
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"sense": "to favor",
"word": "addīcō"
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"code": "la",
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"sense": "to favor",
"word": "māvolō"
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"sense": "to favor",
"word": "mālō"
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"sense": "to favor",
"word": "antehabeō"
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"lang": "Lingala",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "pono"
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"sense": "to favor",
"word": "kopono"
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"roman": "pretpóčita",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "претпо́чита"
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"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "preferíra",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "префери́ра"
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"lang": "Manx",
"note": "with subject and object reversed",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "share lesh"
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "mariu"
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"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "erxemlex",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "эрхэмлэх"
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"code": "ne",
"lang": "Nepali",
"roman": "cunnu",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "चुन्नु"
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"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "préféther"
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"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "foretrekke"
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"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "foreberan"
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"code": "ang",
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"sense": "to favor",
"word": "foresettan"
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"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "beğenmek",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "بگنمك"
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"_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "tarjih dâdan",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "ترجیح دادن"
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"_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "woleć"
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "preferir"
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"code": "qu",
"lang": "Quechua",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "allikachiy"
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"_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "prefera"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "predpočitátʹ",
"sense": "to favor",
"tags": [
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"word": "предпочита́ть"
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"_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
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"roman": "predpočéstʹ",
"sense": "to favor",
"tags": [
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"word": "предпоче́сть"
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"sense": "to favor",
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"Roman"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "preferir"
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"_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "anteponer"
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"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "föredraga"
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"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "föredra"
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{
"_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "mas gusto kumikiling"
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"_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
"alt": "chɔ̂ɔp ~ mâak-gwàa",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "ชอบ ~ มากกว่า"
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"_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "tercih etmek"
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "viddaváty pereváhu",
"sense": "to favor",
"tags": [
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"word": "віддава́ти перева́гу"
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"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "thích hơn"
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"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"note": "with subject and object reversed",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "bod yn well gan"
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"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "preferirn",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "פּרעפֿערירן"
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"text": "You that will be leſſe fearefull, then diſcreet,\n That loue the fundamentall part of State\n More then you doubt the change on’t: That preferre\n A Noble life, before a Long,[…]",
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"ref": "1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:",
"text": "\"My tastes,\" he said, still smiling, \"incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet.\" And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: \"I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;[…].\"",
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"ref": "2019 February 26, James Graham, Adam Johnson, “The Return of the Inexplicable Republican Best Friend”, in FAIR.org:",
"text": "You don’t attack politicians because you prefer them; you attack them because you’re scared of them.",
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"ref": "c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 318, column 2:",
"text": "So ſhall you haue a ſhorter iourney to your deſires, by the meanes I ſhall then haue to preferre them. And the impediment moſt profitably remoued, without the which there were no expectation of our proſperitie.",
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"ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Esther 2:9, column 2:",
"text": "And the maiden pleaſed him, and ſhe obtained kindneſſe of him,[…], and hee preferred her and her maids, vnto the beſt place of the houſe of the women.",
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"ref": "1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 2:",
"text": "Tiberius preferred many to honours in his time, because they were famous whoremasters and sturdy drinkers[…].",
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"ref": "1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London, page 67:",
"text": "[…] she was one of my Master’s Captives. For this Reason, I presume, it was, that she took so much Compassion upon me; considering herself a Slave in a strange Country, and only preferr’d to my Master’s Bed by Courtesy.",
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"text": "[…], let him go,\n And preſently preferre his ſuite to Cæſar.",
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"ref": "1803, Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, Letter 5, p. 137:",
"text": "At length the Maroons, who were delighted to have him with them, became discontented with his absence, and for several years, during the sessions of the House of Assembly, preferred repeated complaints against him.",
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"ref": "1630, John Smith, chapter 1, in The True Travels, Adventures, and Observations of Captaine Iohn Smith, London: Thomas Slater, page 2:",
"text": "one Master David Hume, who making some use of his purse, gave him Letters to his friends in Scotland to preferre him to King Iames.",
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"ref": "1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in Rob Roy. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 68:",
"text": "Such were the arguments which my will boldly preferred to my conscience, as coin which ought to be current; and which conscience, like a grumbling shopkeeper, was contented to accept,[…].",
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"word": "forechoose"
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"word": "præfer [16th–17th c.]"
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"code": "ar",
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"roman": "faḍḍala",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "فَضَّلَ"
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"sense": "to favor",
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"sense": "to favor",
"word": "նախընտրել"
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"sense": "to favor",
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"sense": "to favor",
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"sense": "to favor",
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"roman": "bǐjiào xǐhuan",
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"sense": "to favor",
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"sense": "to favor",
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"sense": "to favor",
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"roman": "aan",
"sense": "to favor",
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"sense": "to favor",
"word": "verkiezen (boven)"
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"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "preferi"
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"lang": "Esperanto",
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"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "to favor",
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{
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "pitää parempana"
},
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "préférer"
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"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "mǯobineba",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "მჯობინება"
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{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "uṗiraṭesobis minič̣eba",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "უპირატესობის მინიჭება"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "vorziehen"
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"sense": "to favor",
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"word": "präferieren"
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"sense": "to favor",
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"roman": "protimáō",
"sense": "to favor",
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"sense": "to favor",
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"sense": "to favor",
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"sense": "to favor",
"word": "makemake"
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{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
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"sense": "to favor",
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"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "pasand karnā",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "पसंद करना"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to favor",
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "jobban szeret/tetszik"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "előnyben részesít"
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"note": "with subject and object reversed",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "is fearr le"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "preferire"
},
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "favorire"
},
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"alt": "…のほうをこのむ",
"code": "ja",
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"roman": "...no hō o konomu",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "…の方を好む"
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"alt": "…のほうがすきである",
"code": "ja",
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"roman": "... no hō ga suki de aru",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "…の方が好きである"
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"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "coul cət",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "ចូលចិត្ត"
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"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "-deo joahada",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "더 좋아하다"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "seonhohada",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "선호(選好)하다"
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"code": "la",
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"sense": "to favor",
"word": "addīcō"
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{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "māvolō"
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{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "mālō"
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{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "antehabeō"
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"lang": "Lingala",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "pono"
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{
"code": "ln",
"lang": "Lingala",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "kopono"
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"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "pretpóčita",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "претпо́чита"
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{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "preferíra",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "префери́ра"
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{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Manx",
"note": "with subject and object reversed",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "share lesh"
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "mariu"
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{
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"roman": "erxemlex",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "эрхэмлэх"
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"code": "ne",
"lang": "Nepali",
"roman": "cunnu",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "चुन्नु"
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"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "préféther"
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{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "foretrekke"
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{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "foreberan"
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{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "foresettan"
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{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "beğenmek",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "بگنمك"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "tarjih dâdan",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "ترجیح دادن"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "woleć"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "preferir"
},
{
"code": "qu",
"lang": "Quechua",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "allikachiy"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "prefera"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "predpočitátʹ",
"sense": "to favor",
"tags": [
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"word": "предпочита́ть"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "predpočéstʹ",
"sense": "to favor",
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"word": "предпоче́сть"
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"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to favor",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "preferirati"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "preferir"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "anteponer"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "föredraga"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "föredra"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "mas gusto kumikiling"
},
{
"alt": "chɔ̂ɔp ~ mâak-gwàa",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "ชอบ ~ มากกว่า"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "tercih etmek"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "viddaváty pereváhu",
"sense": "to favor",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "віддава́ти перева́гу"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "thích hơn"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"note": "with subject and object reversed",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "bod yn well gan"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "preferirn",
"sense": "to favor",
"word": "פּרעפֿערירן"
}
],
"word": "prefer"
}
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{
"args": {
"1": "ro",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "prefer",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Romanian",
"lang_code": "ro",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
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"categories": [
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Romanian entries with incorrect language header",
"Romanian non-lemma forms",
"Romanian verb forms"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "prefera"
}
],
"glosses": [
"first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of prefera"
],
"links": [
[
"prefera",
"prefera#Romanian"
]
],
"tags": [
"first-person",
"form-of",
"indicative",
"present",
"singular",
"subjunctive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[preˈfer]"
}
],
"word": "prefer"
}
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"called_from": "pronunciations/296/20230324",
"msg": "Zh-pron header not found in zh_pron_tags or tags: '(Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺'",
"path": [
"prefer"
],
"section": "Chinese",
"subsection": "",
"title": "prefer",
"trace": ""
}
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