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preference 1. Law a. the settling of the claims of one or more creditors before or to the exclusion of those of the others b. a prior right to payment, as of a dividend or share in the assets of a company in the event of liquidation 2. Commerce the granting of favour or precedence to particular foreign countries, as by levying differential tariffs How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Now in the generality of free states, the governors and the governed alternately change place; for an equality without any preference is what nature chooses; however, when one governs and another is governed, she endeavours that there should be a distinction between them in forms, expressions, and honours; according to what Amasis said of his laver. If, in the maiden days of the Dodson sisters, their Bibles opened more easily at some parts than others, it was because of dried tulip-petals, which had been distributed quite impartially, without preference for the historical, devotional, or doctrinal. She was far from depending on that result of his preference of her, which her mother and sister still considered as certain. |
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