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noun
- 1. promotion or appointment to a position or office: "after ordination, preferment was fast"
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PREFERMENT definition: the process by which someone receives a more important job, position, etc.: . Learn more.
1. a. : advancement or promotion in dignity, office, or station. b. : a position or office of honor or profit. 2. : priority or seniority in right especially to receive payment or to purchase property on equal terms with others. 3. : the act of bringing forward.
noun. 1. the act of preferring. 2. the state of being preferred. 3. advancement or promotion, esp. in the church. 4. a position or office affording social or pecuniary advancement.
PREFERMENT meaning: the process by which someone receives a more important job, position, etc.: . Learn more.
Definition of preferment noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
noun. the act of promoting or advancing to a higher position, office, etc. the state of being preferred for promotion or social advancement. the act of preferring.
preferment meaning, definition, what is preferment: when someone is given a more important j...: Learn more.
Define preferment. preferment synonyms, preferment pronunciation, preferment translation, English dictionary definition of preferment. n. 1. The act of advancing to a higher position or office; promotion. 2. A position, appointment, or rank giving advancement, as of profit or prestige.
Preferment definition: The act of advancing to a higher position or office; promotion.
The noun preferment is a kind of promotion, like getting a better position or moving up the ranks at work. Preferment also means the act of liking one thing more than another. SKIP TO CONTENT
