Usually means: Advancement or promotion in position.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word preferment:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. preferment: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. preferment: Merriam-Webster
  3. preferment: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. preferment: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. preferment: Collins English Dictionary
  6. preferment: Vocabulary.com
  7. Preferment, preferment: Wordnik
  8. preferment: Wiktionary
  9. preferment: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. preferment: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. preferment: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. preferment: Dictionary.com
  13. Preferment: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Preferment: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. preferment: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. preferment: Rhymezone
  17. Preferment: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. preferment: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. preferment: FreeDictionary.org
  20. preferment: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. preferment: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (now historical) Prior claim (on payment, or on purchasing something); the first rights to obtain a particular payment or product.
noun:  (obsolete) The fact of being pushed or advanced to a more favourable situation; furtherance, promotion (of a candidate, action, undertaking etc.).
noun:  Advancement to a higher position or office; promotion.
noun:  A position (especially in the Church of England) that provides profit or prestige.
noun:  (now rare) The fact of preferring something; preference.
noun:  A mixture of flour, water and yeast that is allowed to ferment prior to another baking process

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