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pre-ˈpreference, a.
[pre- B. 2.]
Ranking before preference bonds, shares, claims, etc., in security, payment of dividend or interest. Cf. preference 8.
1869Bradshaw's Railway Manual XXI. 128 New capital..was created as a 4½ per cent. pre-preference or debenture stock, the first preference being made second. 1882Bithell Counting-ho. Dict. 236 The new series of Bonds..distinguished from all the others by the name of pre-preference bonds. 1896Westm. Gaz. 3 Mar. 6/1 The directors..announce the issue of 6,000 Five and a-Quarter per Cent. Cumulative Pre-preference {pstlg}10 shares at a premium of 10s. each. 1900Ibid. 5 Mar. 11/1 The shareholders..would not have it [the new issue] in the form of pre-preference shares, and now apparently the directors are determined to make it more pre than ever [by an issue of debentures].
So pre-prefeˈrential a.
1885Manch. Exam. 21 Jan. 4/7 We might..guarantee the whole loan..instead of guaranteeing only five and raising the other four by pre-preferential bonds. |