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Перевод: preference

[прилагательное]
привилегированный;
[существительное]
предпочтение; то, чему отдается предпочтение; преимущественное право на оплату; льготная таможенная пошлина; преференция ; преферанс

Тезаурус:

1. Surprisingly, given the folk image of policemen, on the one occasion when the field-worker accompanied some policemen on court duty, the men expressed a preference for "fair" judges and actually criticized what they thought was the excessive penalty imposed by a "hard" judge for the offence of throwing an empty can (FN 9/3/87, p. 10).
2. If, for example, they are tested with full-strength or even half-strength milk, they show no preference for the more or the less sweetened examples.
3. Our new landlady made it clear that she was delighted to accept us in preference to yet more evacuee children.
4. Considerable stress is laid on the accessibility and approachability of the landlord organisations, especially given that most tenants stated a preference to speak rather than write to housing staff about their problems.
5. The preference between candidates at the same level or at neighbouring levels was weak, while that between candidates at more distant levels was strong.
6. It is not invariably the case that Shetlanders who are selling land, will exhibit loyalty and give preference to other Shetlanders, especially if the other Shetlanders are not related.
7. We now have a situation where, in the unskilled occupations, an employer will take on a woman in preference to a man - since he would expect higher wages.
8. Mix a facial oil suitable for your partner's skin-type taking into account his or her perfume preference.
9. We've already talked of anxious horses, and how no one would have one for preference.
10. In the control sample the picture was slightly different; of the 13 who stated a preference at first interview for home care and whom we were able to interview again one year later, six stated an unequivocal preference for home care, five a preference for home care but a recognition of the necessity for, or a competing preference for, institutional care, and two a clear preference for institutional care.
11. My personal preference, while awaiting further light, is to look in the opposite direction.
12. These should be nominated in order of preference.
13. In 1966 I moved from the world of "real polising" into areas of operational marginality which were further to confound the preference for the clearly delineated police world I had been brought up in.