preferencing
/ˈprɛf(ə)rənsɪŋ/ /ˈprɛf(ə)r(ə)nsɪŋ/noun
1The giving of preferential consideration or treatment; preferring.
2 Stock Market. The action or practice of directing orders to a specific dealer.
Origin
1950s; earliest use found in Lincoln (Nebraska) Evening Journal. From preference + -ing Compare earlier preferring, preferment.
- street worker
- streety
- street yarn
- Strega
- Streisand, Barbra
- strelitzia
- strength
- strengthen
- strengthener
- strengthen someone's hand (or hands)
- strengthful
- strengthily
- strengthing
- strengthless
- strength-to-weight ratio
- strength/weight ratio
- strengthy
- strenuous
- strenuously
- strenuousness
- strep
- Strepsiptera
- strepsipteran
- strep throat
- strepto-