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preferment
noun
pre·fer·ment pri-ˈfər-mənt 
Example Sentences
He has hopes for preferment. anticipated her preferment to a better-paying position within the company
Recent Examples on the Web Government patronage, rather than innovation and the service of one’s neighbor, becomes the path to preferment, and innovation is consequently replaced by lobbying and supplication for special status. 
Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 12 Aug. 2021 Working-class Protestants are watching the new global economy select their old tribal enemies for preferment while they themselves are left behind. Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 15 Apr. 2021 Why should the government give yet another preferment to investment in upgrading the human capital of the affluent, over the capital investments of other entrepreneurs and workers? Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 21 Nov. 2020 Think of a preferment like a head start towards fermentation. Sarah Jampel, Bon Appétit, 11 Oct. 2020 MPs’ natural wish to support their prime minister, their own ambitions for preferment and the whips’ cruel ways all make for a reluctance to rock the boat. The Economist, 21 June 2018
Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 12 Aug. 2021 Working-class Protestants are watching the new global economy select their old tribal enemies for preferment while they themselves are left behind. Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 15 Apr. 2021 Why should the government give yet another preferment to investment in upgrading the human capital of the affluent, over the capital investments of other entrepreneurs and workers? Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 21 Nov. 2020 Think of a preferment like a head start towards fermentation. Sarah Jampel, Bon Appétit, 11 Oct. 2020 MPs’ natural wish to support their prime minister, their own ambitions for preferment and the whips’ cruel ways all make for a reluctance to rock the boat. The Economist, 21 June 2018 Word History
First Known Use
15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
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