prefer

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Definizione monolingua


prefer


Verb

prefer (third-person singular simple present prefers, present participle preferring, simple past and past participle preferred)


  1. (transitive, now dated) To advance, promote (someone). [from 14th c.]
    • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.3.2:
      Tiberius preferred many to honours in his time, because they were famous whoremasters and sturdy drinkers [...].
  2. (transitive) To be in the habit of choosing something rather than something else; to favor; to like better. [from 14th c.]
    I prefer tea to coffee.
  3. (transitive) To present or submit (something) to an authority (now usually in ""to prefer charges""). [from 16th c.]
  4. (obsolete, transitive) To put forward for acceptance; to introduce, recommend (to). [16th-19th c.]
    • 1630, John Smith, True Travels, in Kupperman 1988, p. 36:
      one Master David Hume, who making some use of his purse, gave him Letters to his friends in Scotland to preferre him to King James.
    • 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy, XVII:
      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 [...].

Definizione dizionario prefer


preferire
  to favor
piacere
prediligere
scegliere

Altri significati:
  (to) prefer
  (transitive) To be in the habit of choosing something rather than something else; to favor; to like better. [from 14th c.]
  prefer (ii)
  (transitive) To present or submit (something) to an authority (now usually in "to prefer charges"). [from 16th c.]
  (obsolete, transitive) To put forward for acceptance; to introduce, recommend. [16th-19th c.]
  (transitive, now dated) To advance, promote (someone). [from 14th c.]

Traduzione prefer


preferire ,piacere ,prediligere ,scegliere

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