preferential
/ˈpɹɛf.ɜː(ɹ)ˌɛn.ʃəl/
preferential adjective: of or relating to the showing or giving of preference.
Adjective
preferential (comparative more preferential, superlative most preferential)
- Of or relating to the showing or giving of preference.
- Club members received preferential seating.
- preferential treatment
- 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
preferential meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
preferential in Hindi
- तरजीही
preferential in Urdu
- ترجیحی
preferential in Bengali
- পছন্দমূলক, বিশেষ সুবিধা প্রদানকারী
preferential in Malayalam
- better, special, privileged
- മുൻഗണനാപരമായ, പ്രത്യേകമായ, സവിശേഷമായ, മെച്ചപ്പെട്ട, കൂടുതൽ നല്ല, വിശേഷാധികാരമുള്ള
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- preferential in Kannada
- ಆದ್ಯತೆಯ, ಪುರಸ್ಕಾರ ನೀಡುವ, ಒಲವು ತೋರುವ
- preferential in Gujarati
- પ્રેફરન્શિયલ
Examples of preferential in a sentence
- For years now, local parties in Mumbai had campaigned for Marathi people to get preferential treatment – land, housing, jobs.
- The party state encourages companies to band together into industry clusters by giving them preferential access to contracts and stockmarket listings.
- The concepts of preferential flow and mobile and immobile water are related to each other and to that of the holdback of solute against leaching.
Forms of preferential
| comparative | more preferential |
|---|---|
| superlative | most preferential |
| alternative form | preferrential |
Origin of preferential
From Medieval Latin preferentia + -al.
Words formed from preferential
Phrases with preferential
Questions about preferential
- What does preferential mean?
- Preferential means of or relating to the showing or giving of preference.
- What is preferential in Hindi?
- Preferential in Hindi is तरजीही. See Preferential meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is preferential?
- Preferential is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce preferential?
- Preferential is pronounced /ˈpɹɛf.ɜː(ɹ)ˌɛn.ʃəl/ (UK).
Words near preferential in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: preferential (page history and authors); preferential (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); preferential (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); preferential (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); preferential (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); preferential (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); preferential (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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