Definition of Preferentially

1. Adverb. In a preferential manner. "He was treated preferentially"

Partainyms: Preferential

Definition of Preferentially

1. Adverb. in a preferential manner ¹

2. Adverb. advantageously ¹

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Definition of Preferentially

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Preferentially

preferabilities
preferability
preferable
preferableness
preferably
preferans
preferations
prefered
preference
preference shares
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preferences
preferencing
preferential
preferentiality
preferentially (current term)
preferer
preferers
prefering
preferist
preferists
preferment
preferments
preferr
preferrable
preferred
preferred creditor
preferred shares
preferred stock
preferredness

Literary usage of Preferentially

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story by Andrei Maylunas (2005)
"The possibility that spontaneous hprt mutants might arise in vivo preferentially in dividing cells, and implications of this, are discussed. (Auth. ..."

2. Select extra-tropical plants readily eligible for industrial culture or by Ferdinand Jacob H. Mueller (1880)
"The Italian Rye Grass is preferentially chosen as an early temporary shelter for tenderer but more lasting grasses on pastures, thus also furnishing a good ..."

3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"The first is that equatorial substituents are preferentially concerted into anti and ... The third rule is that aldehydes preferentially interact with anti ..."

4. The Law and Practice in Bankruptcy Under the National Bankruptcy Act of 1898 by William Miller Collier, William Horace Hotchkiss, Frank Bixby Gilbert, Fred Eugene Rosbrook (1921)
"Where property is preferentially transferred to a creditor and subsequently recovered by the trustee, it has been held that after the trustee has been put ..."

5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1904)
"The older idea, that in a defective oxygen supply the hydrogen of a hydrocarbon burns preferentially to the carbon, is unsupported by experimental evidence, ..."

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