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Prefer

verb

(past & past part. preferred; pres. part. preferring)

Like better; value more highly. "We prefer sleeping outside"

Select as an alternative over another. Synonyms: choose, opt. "She opted for the job on the East coast"

Promote over another. Synonyms: favor, favour.

Give preference to one creditor over another.

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"Prefer" Quotes from Famous Books

... confident you can supply your camp for an indefinite period? The difficulties and risk of withdrawing of civil population and military stores are great. The railway may be cut any day. Do you yourself, after considering these difficulties, think it better to remain at Dundee, and prefer it?" ...

— History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) - Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government • Frederick Maurice

... Class. "Philistine gives the notion of something particularly stiffnecked and perverse in the resistance to light and its children, and therein it specially suits our Middle Class, who not only do not pursue Sweetness and Light, but who even prefer to them that sort of machinery of business, chapels, tea-meetings, and addresses from Mr. Murphy,[31] which make up the dismal and illiberal life on which I have so often touched." The force of Philistinism in English life and society is the force which, from first to last, he set ...

— Matthew Arnold • G. W. E. Russell

... given on page 16 states the height from the ground that different species of birds seem to prefer for their nests, to which several suggestions may be added. The houses should be so located that cats and other bird enemies do not have easy access to them. The openings ought to be turned away from the directions from which storms and winds most ...

— Bird Houses Boys Can Build • Albert F. Siepert

... that Dale's own words were thus lost; for the stories of the hardy partisan are not improved by his biographer's well-meant efforts to tell them in more graceful language. Mr. Claiborne's cheap eloquence is perhaps suited to the unfastidious taste of a lower latitude; but we prefer those stories, too few in number, in which the homely words of ...

— Atlantic Monthly Vol. 6, No. 33, July, 1860 • Various

... "Well, I prefer your folly," he said gravely. "It was folly that made you love me at the first; it was pure folly that brought you out to me that night at Chericoke—but the greatest folly of all is just this, ...

— The Battle Ground • Ellen Glasgow

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