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What does preferential mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of or relating to the showing or giving of preference.
  2. 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.
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The prospectus will also outline the terms of the preferential share offer, allowing investors to buy further stock at a discount.
The Inland Revenue, as a distrainer, will become a preferential creditor in the sum of the sale proceeds.
The sample was dichotomized based on a median split of preferential negative encoding.
Domestic politics would be purged of interest groups vying for preferential treatment.
Austria would prefer Turkey to get a preferential partnership rather than full membership.
Somebody must have forgotten to explain to them the intricacies of quota preferential voting in the Senate.

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