Usually means: Showing favor or bias towards.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. preferentially: Merriam-Webster
  2. preferentially: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. preferentially: Collins English Dictionary
  4. preferentially: Vocabulary.com
  5. preferentially: Wordnik
  6. preferentially: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. preferentially: Wiktionary
  8. preferentially: Dictionary.com
  9. preferentially: Rhymezone
  10. preferentially: FreeDictionary.org
  11. preferentially: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. preferentially: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (preferentially)

▸ adverb:  in a preferential manner
▸ adverb:  advantageously

Similar:
preferably, liefer, superselectively, preferredly, favouredly, preponderantly, selectly, favoringly, phenodominantly, favouringly, more...

Types:
biased, inclined, partial, predisposed, more...

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Similar:
preferably, liefer, superselectively, preferredly, favouredly, preponderantly, selectly, favoringly, phenodominantly, favouringly, more...

Types:
biased, inclined, partial, predisposed, more...

Colors:
    blue,     green,     red,     yellow,     purple, more...



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