Usually means: Shows favor or liking towards.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word prefers:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. prefers: Merriam-Webster
  2. prefers: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. prefers: Collins English Dictionary
  4. prefers: Vocabulary.com
  5. Prefers, prefers: Wordnik
  6. prefers: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. prefers: Wiktionary
  8. prefers: Dictionary.com
  9. prefers: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. prefers: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. prefers: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. prefers: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prefers: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (prefer)

verb:  (transitive) To be in the habit of choosing something rather than something else; to favor; to like better.
verb:  (transitive, now dated) To advance, promote (someone or something).
verb:  (transitive) To present or submit (something) to an authority (now usually in "to prefer charges").
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To put forward for acceptance; to introduce, recommend (to).
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