单词 | preferment |
释义 | preferment From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Employmentprefermentpre‧fer‧ment /prɪˈfɜːmənt $ -ɜːr-/ noun [uncountable]formalBERRCUP when someone is given a more important jobExamples from the Corpuspreferment• 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.• 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.From Longman Business Dictionaryprefermentpre‧fer‧ment /prɪˈfɜːmənt-ɜːr-/ noun [uncountable] formal when someone is given a more important jobHe is hoping for political preferment. |
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