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preferent

preferent adjective: preferred or favoured.

Adjective

preferent (not comparable)

  1. Preferred or favoured.
    • The proceeds of the estate shall be distributed, first to the preferent creditors, in the order in which they respectively succeed, and then the remainder among the concurrent creditors, by dividend; […]1823, William Wilberforce Bird, Henry Thomas Colebrooke, State of the Cape of Good Hope, in 1822, page 290

Questions about preferent

What does preferent mean?
Preferent means preferred or favoured.
What part of speech is preferent?
Preferent is an adjective.

Words near preferent in the dictionary

  1. preferencing
  2. preferency
  3. preferenda
  4. preferendum
  5. preferendums
  6. preferent
  7. preferential
  8. preferential attachment
  9. preferential attachments
  10. preferential treatment
  11. preferential voting

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