名词

1. 喜好；偏好；偏爱
If you have a preference for something, you would like to have or do that thing rather than something else.

2. 优惠；优待；优先权
If you give preference to someone with a particular qualification or feature, you choose them rather than someone else.

1. grant of favor or advantage to one over another (especially to a country or countries in matters of international trade, such as levying duties)

2. the right or chance to choose

e.g. given my druthers, I'd eat cake

Synonym: druthers

3. a predisposition in favor of something

e.g. a predilection for expensive cars
his sexual preferences
showed a Marxist orientation

Synonym: predilectionorientation

4. a strong liking

e.g. my own preference is for good literature
the Irish have a penchant for blarney

Synonym: penchantpredilectiontaste