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• preference — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ clear, definite, marked, strong ▪ slight ▪ individual, personal ▪ It s a matter of personal …   Collocations dictionary

• preference — pref·er·ence / pre frəns, fə rəns/ n 1: the right to prior payment of a debt with preference over the creditors of the heirs or legatees Louisiana Civil Code 2: the transfer of an insolvent debtor s interest in property to a creditor for an… …   Law dictionary

• Preference — (also called taste or penchant ) is a concept, used in the social sciences, particularly economics. It assumes a real or imagined choice between alternatives and the possibility of rank ordering of these alternatives, based on happiness,… …   Wikipedia

• Preference utilitarianism — is quite probably the most popular form of utilitarianism in contemporary philosophy. In the same way as other utilitarian theorists, preference utilitarians define a morally right action as that which produces the most favourable consequences… …   Wikipedia

• Preference regression (in marketing) — Preference regression is a statistical technique used by marketers to determine consumers’ preferred core benefits. It usually supplements product positioning techniques like multi dimensional scaling or factor analysis and is used to create… …   Wikipedia

• preference relative — An immigration term for certain people who may be eligible for U.S. permanent residence (a green card ) based on family relationships. Preference relatives include the married children of U.S. citizens, children over 21 of U.S. citizens, the… …   Law dictionary

• preference theory — seeks to provide an empirically based, predictive explanation for the differentiated choices women make between productive work and reproductive work in rich modern societies, after the contraceptive revolution gave women control over their own… …   Dictionary of sociology

• Preference elicitation — refers to the problem of developing a decision support system capable of generating recommendations to a user, thus assisting him in decision making. It is important for such a system to model user s preferences accurately, find hidden… …   Wikipedia

• preference share — a special type of share in a company, which has the characteristic that it confers an entitlement to a specified percentage rate of dividend that is payable in priority to the claims of ordinary shareholders. A company s share capital may be… …   Law dictionary

• preference — a payment by a debtor made during a specified period (90 days or one year) prior to the filing that favors one creditor over others. Preference payments can usually be recovered and returned to the debtor s estate (Glossary of Common Bankruptcy… …   Glossary of Bankruptcy

• preference or preferred creditors — Those creditors, in the Bankruptcy and insolvency Act specified in Section 136, that rank ahead of ordinary or unsecured creditors. Some preferred creditors are employees for wages, and a landlord for some specified rental arrears. (Dictionary of …   Glossary of Bankruptcy