Definition of "preferred" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of prefer. (verb)
• Favoured (adjective)
• Preferred stock. (noun)

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• "It really gave one quite a shock to realise _how_ grown-up the old companions had become even the brothers Harry and Russell were transformed into tall striplings who bought newspapers on their own account, and preferred, actually _preferred_, to be clean rather than dirty!"
• "Eviscerate is the term preferred by feminists and other right-minded people to emasculate, as it is gender neutral and has the added advantage of not insulting those of us who are non-masculine by nature."
• "She also referred to the South China Sea as the West Philippine Sea, a term preferred in the Philippines but reviled in China."