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8
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168
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6
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5
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64
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130
insecurity
98
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61
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352
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7
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6
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8
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7
transferred
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gunman
159
typify
11
tabernacles
2
Customs and Excise
81
the Sunbelt
6
profanation
3
sagittarian
2
predicative
7
crinoline
60
quarrelling
7
in concert (with someone)
68
skeletonize
4
rhinitis
7
reflective
270
schoolbook
8
railleries
4
sickish
8
click
181
schtick
7
spiderlike
4
soft goods
3
preachiness
2
glueyness
75
civilize
391
screechier
5
travestied
3
puzzlingly
8
slow-witted
50
underpants
6
prophesied
2
registered
9
replicable
6
scragglier
6
protruding
4
pragmatist
7
forgotten
57
unendingly
4
urn
9
decollete
9
Rising
200
rivalling
7
poundcake
3
scrubbing
6
absinth
112
politburo
7
bear with sb
49
smelliest
7
remainder
6
basilica
105
symmetric
6
love bite
9
soundless
9
transmute
9
restraint
717
unaltered
8
engine
440
spendable
7
sheikhdom
6
pinocchio
7
slimeball
8
propelled
6
rock face
5
mea culpa
6
tellable
4
sweatier
4
Perform
175
bidding
67
spitfire
9
quipster
4
porcupine
33
foreign-service
77
pleading
11
florist
99
unbeaten
7
Malevolent
49
tightwad
8
claw
398
balloon
408
in the flesh
24
vauxhall
5
truckage
6
snapping
6
trilingual
50
radiancy
6
brioche
74
spillage
9
Involved
273
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4
releasor
6
barbados
70
state
546
swagging
6
volk
6
resurrection
87
royalist
8
slovenia
8
-ify
126
minor in
12
shakers
8
tapping
2
detect
444
slugged
9
reaches
6
webbing
5
winning
13
dude ranch
73
snipper
2
slowish
5
thyroid
9
RUSHING
5
Adventurer
318
wrinkly
8
retread
7
thyself
7
reprisal
5
pledgor
7
unicorn
9
washtub
7
sikhism
9
ribbons
8
contemporary
453
tweeter
9
upsurge
6
tipper
7
texter
7
Purple
7
dogs
38
valium
11
romans
6
Italian
277
belly-laugh
56
quanta
7
studenty
5
disobedient
204
updo
5
targetable
2
reprimand
198
rotc
9
lama
12
rootlessness
7
Veto
8
va
8
revile
11
tahini
7
rakish
9
theres
4
sward
12
debt
384
WILD
11
nvq
15
No doubt
84
fairy tale
209
stapling
7
sniffy
12
trumpets
5
cow
444
dunce
46
Guard
155
hangar
19
grandson
364
Decorate
222
monograph
7
sausage
389
pat
377
draw off
59
kit
226
campery
36
Pull
736
hourglass
8
purple
351
unreality
8
premise
248
Signal
200
whatnot
7
under threat
19
Clip
129
demigod
73
Steadfast
194
photostat
16
amaze
433
spoke
12
Slightly, to some degree and not completely
7
spoil
387
THEN
68
mend (your) fences
28
westernised
19
discover
552
jangle
75
prowl
185
Romance
157
stereotype
249
period
446
buy into
44
mood
843
interviewee
15
tuba
10
retired
160
Worthwhile
103
Imagine
217
firearm
78
Reaching
52
Hold
272
Straws
24
Happening only once
49
Rep
56
For
126
Final
162
practicum
43
adjective
508
shoddily
75
Embarrassed
167
infrastructure
132
Credit
186
rate
559
defogger
65
licensed
234
savviest
7
louisville
8
Certificate
305
By
124
Board
215
Bad
211
Words used to describe situations and circumstances
38
BRIGHT
202
Rational
202
Aside
103
Altogether
143
Advice
178
accessorial
35
rub
438
wistful
134
qualified
170
poop
197
Army
190
nor
88
meteorology
240
regality
7
Victim
210
love
670
loose end
94
intermezzo
8
kindly
92
in advance
81
direct discourse
81
finely
145
exposé
313
feedback
493
Wing
193
Anthology
108
Concede
218
Unfairly
56
organization
449
ditch
344
Uncomfortable
194
Throughout
177
corner shop
89
Thin
181
exacerbate
202
exceed
414
Tent
141
Iowa
8
snore
234
Tap
181
enormousness
107
Stop
238
Statue
176
hectare
15
Special
179
bulk up
68
Some
135
witch
152
Slide
174
Safe
180
calendar
585
upcoming
275
Route
158
knelt
17
Retirement
157
barn
487
Quantity
198
hyena
107
critique
111
Proceed
201
Pose
159
Plenty
135
Permanent
214
Pen
145
ventriloquist
9
Hill
174
declarative
94
Emphasis
201
Finally
111
contrary
408
Fairly
111
Constant
162
Base
212
Aspect
194
Charisma
79
systematic
467
businessman
146
squeamish
278
undershirt
14
Ostentatious
10
begrudge
132
partial
466
labour
371
chelsea
18
Borne
28
float around
92
transept
4
Wane
136
bricks and mortar
43
illness
464
metrication
14
trace
424
dilapidated
60
puke
13
deliberately
317
Extended
134
baggie
69
completely
491
arpeggio
55
Purchases
78
smidgen
10
take apart
79
kafkaesque
15
stir
404
mesmerize
152
innovate
153
mid-range
13
Five
11
stalinism
7
credentials
292
sonogram
8
jewry
13
tour
549
stodgier
9
fray
143
president
470
unparalleled
53
finite
65
doctrinaire
85
Setback
55
performability
10
architectural
156
steeplechase
9
Starch
60
Professional
207
spud
10
USP
77
satiable
6
matrimony
162
pithy
32
beginner
468
poppies
7
To use a particular gesture to communicate something
48
resplendence
8
crash barrier
64
illumine
18
Pig
194
Evening
83
half-mast
400
district nurse
51
local
334
relation
526
downpour
105
violin
374
people
284
implausible
52
showing
125
limbs
20
transom
8
underrated
32
cockchafer
9
decease
42
quantities
22
tertiary
9
humorous
518
implement
661
lassie
15
Notch
28
tight
437
sexology
5
Received
224
yellowish
8
cretin
98
intolerant
74
thorax
15
enlightened
135
tomfoolery
13
neanderthal
13
Slope
92
psychoanalysis
8
serb
9
kabob
10
diary
448
sudan
8
schoolwork
8
pupped
8
unrestricted
7
soundtrack
8
unprompted
10
harmonics
11
opportunism
13
tiddler
8
Specialist languages used by particular groups of people
34
tarpaulin
6
sentential
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COCA: 43252
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
preferment
Word family
noun
preferability
preference
preferentialism
preferentialist
preferment
preferrer
adjective
preferable
preferential
adverb
preferably
preferentially
verb
prefer
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Employment
pre
·
fer
·
ment
/
prɪˈfɜːmənt
$
-ɜːr-
/
noun
[
uncountable
U
]
formal
BE
RRC
UP
when someone is given a more important job
提升,晋升
Examples from the Corpus
preferment
•
By
January
1989 nineteen of her
twenty-one
Cabinet
ministers
owed
their first
preferment
to her.
•
Obvious
answers first: he hopes for
preferment
.
•
Then an
extraordinary
chance gave the barber's
son
the
connections
which he needed for
preferment
.
•
Renewed
prospects
opened up for
preferment
in Ireland.
•
For others there may be a
lack
of
preferment
and other problems of staleness and
complacency
.
•
Alternatively, such an
entry
might mean a
temporary
absence
, on
Church
business if not a
foray
in
quest
of
preferment
.
•
His own
preferment
was not a little
due
to his
discerning
hospitality
.
•
Western
gunfights
were alcohol-related, or else involved
battles
over
gambling
,
prostitution
, or political
preferment
.
From Longman Business Dictionary
preferment
pre·fer·ment
/
prɪˈfɜːmənt-ɜːr-
/
noun
[
uncountable
U
]
formal
when someone is given a more important job
He is hoping for political preferment.
pre
·
fer
·
ment
noun
Chinese
Syllable
Corpus
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