Usually means: Favoring one side or group.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. preferential: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. preferential: Merriam-Webster
  3. preferential: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. preferential: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. preferential: Collins English Dictionary
  6. preferential: Vocabulary.com
  7. Preferential, preferential: Wordnik
  8. preferential: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. preferential: Wiktionary
  10. preferential: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. preferential: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. preferential: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. preferential: Dictionary.com
  14. preferential: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Preferential: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Preferential: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. preferential: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. preferential: Rhymezone
  19. Preferential: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. preferential: FreeDictionary.org
  21. preferential: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. preferential: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. preferential: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. preferential: Legal dictionary
  4. preferential: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. preferential: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  Of or relating to the showing or giving of preference.
adjective:  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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