Preferment Definition

prĭ-fûrmənt
preferments
noun
An advancement in rank or office; promotion.
Webster's New World
The act of preferring.
Webster's New World
A position, appointment, or rank giving advancement, as of profit or prestige.
American Heritage
An office, rank, or honor to which a person is advanced.
Webster's New World

(now historical) Prior claim (on payment, or on purchasing something); the first rights to obtain a particular payment or product. [from 15th c.]

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Singular:
preferment
Plural:
preferments

Origin of Preferment

  • From prefer +"Ž -ment.

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Preferment Sentence Examples

  • Their motives were purely selfish; not God's cause but their own, not religion but power and preferment, were what they sought.'

  • His preferment was rapid.

  • Personal experience of the inconveniences and dangers of the prevailing system of preferment, the so-called myestnichestvo, or rank priority, which had paralysed the Russian armies for centuries, induced him to propose its abolition, which was accomplished by Tsar Theodore III.

  • His own hopes of preferment had been strengthened by the death of many of the higher clergy at Flodden.

  • The best proof of his not being ambitious of such a doubtful piece of preferment is that he made no attempt to get himself made king, regent or lieutenant-general of the kingdom at the time of the flight to Varennes in June 1791.

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Words Starting With

PPRPRE

Words Ending With

TNTENT

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