preferencing
- 1Present participle and gerund of preference.
Critics accused the agency of preferencing well-connected firms when awarding contracts.
Preferencing certain regions for funding led to deep resentment elsewhere.
Note
A verb that shares its spelling with the noun preference, and an American one. To preference someone is to give them preferential treatment, so the -ing form takes a direct object (preferencing local suppliers). It names treatment rather than taste: the favoring an institution shows, closer to partiality or bias than to personal liking. That is why it turns up so readily in complaints about contracts and funding.
preferencing is a form of preference
preference, verb: To give preferential treatment to a person or thing; to favor one option above others. Full entry
- Forms
- preferencepreferences he/she/itpreferencing -ing formpreferenced past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- preference → preferencing: drop the e, add -ing
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