Usually means: Favor one option over another.
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General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. prefer: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. prefer: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. prefer: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. prefer: Collins English Dictionary
  5. prefer: Vocabulary.com
  6. Prefer, prefer: Wordnik
  7. prefer: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. prefer: Wiktionary
  9. prefer: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. prefer: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. prefer: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. prefer: Dictionary.com
  13. prefer: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. prefer: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Prefer: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Prefer: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. prefer: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. prefer: Rhymezone
  19. prefer: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. prefer: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. prefer: Free Dictionary
  22. prefer: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. prefer: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. prefer: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. prefer: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. prefer: Legal dictionary
  3. prefer: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prefer: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prefer: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ 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).

Similar:
choose, favor, favour, opt for, tend, want, like, preferable, opt, loathe, more...

Opposite:
dislike, reject, avoid, disdain, spurn

Types:
preferable, preferably, preferring, preferringly, more...

Phrases:
prefer charges, You'd Prefer an Astronaut, gentlemen prefer blondes, prefer to, prefer to be called, more...


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Similar:
choose, favor, favour, opt for, tend, want, like, preferable, opt, loathe, more...

Opposite:
dislike, reject, avoid, disdain, spurn

Types:
preferable, preferably, preferring, preferringly, more...

Phrases:
prefer charges, You'd Prefer an Astronaut, gentlemen prefer blondes, prefer to, prefer to be called, i prefer milk, ones who prefer to avoid reality, prefer not, choose prefer, opposite of prefer, more...



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