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Preferment meaning
Prior claim (on payment, or on purchasing something); the first rights to obtain a particular payment or product. | The fact of being pushed or advanced to a more favourable situation; furtherance, promotion (of a candidate, action, undertaking etc.). | Advancement to a higher position or office; promotion.
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Example sentences (5)
The Great Barrier Reef Foundation was deemed the chosen one, but questions are circulating as to why that outfit got preferment for such largesse.
A few months later, he wrote the music for D'Urfey's play, The Fool's Preferment.
At this period, simony (the purchase or sale of church offices or preferment) in the election of popes and bishops was rife among clergy and laity.
This work helped Abbadie's preferment.
Williams took holy orders in the Church of England in connection with his studies, but he became a Puritan at Cambridge and thus ruined his chance for preferment in the Anglican church.