Preference in a sentence as a noun

Design and style evolve, and much of it involves fashion, fad, style, and preference.

This is not simply an aesthetic preference like "women prefer men who are tall.

This is closely related to their strong preference for maintaining the status quo across the board.

It's your preference for living by yourself, for quiet moments away from others, for nights spent at home, watching Netflix or playing games.

This is exactly the opposite of what you are talking about - there is no preference being provided for Netflix traffic.

Unfortunately, mostly for social reasons, it's hard to express this preference.

This one however seems to be largely driven by personal preference: if you want to work from home, you can't understand why anyone is against it.

There are reasons for telecommuting - personal preference, getting access to people who cannot co-locate, etc.

There are other market forces at work, such as the preference of many students and their parents for students to be grouped with those of a similar age--- and the dislike of many parents for their students to be seen as "behind".

That's as nonsensical as a large corporation justifying their political donations as an innocent, democratic expression of political preference.

But a book teaching how to write code in the language is not a throwaway spike solution, and in that environment you should either explicitly tell readers you're teaching them a style that nobody else uses in production code or — and this is my preference — just write idiomatic code.

If you aren't familiar with this activity, it has some pretty outrageous elements--300 wpm speed-reading, often surface-level analysis, and preference for gamesmanship over quality of argumentation.

And when they missed, it was the investors who would force a merger or sale of the company, take out their liquidation preference to get a return on their money, and leave founders with a zero-equity return after perhaps years of working for little or no salary and putting in 20-hour workdays in the process.

"Seeing introversion as a preference or identity is fine as long as you have a nice consistently introverted life and that's exactly what you want, but it harks back to the day when everybody had their place and accepted their limitations and anyone who felt any conflict or frustration about it was "maladjusted.

Also not counting documentaries like "Restrepo".I hereby dispute the idea that the DOD has made it impossible for big-budget Hollywood movies to criticize the US military, and suggest instead that the bias Hollywood in favor of the military is responding to customer preferences and not leading it.

Preference definitions

noun

a strong liking; "my own preference is for good literature"; "the Irish have a penchant for blarney"

See also: penchant predilection taste

noun

a predisposition in favor of something; "a predilection for expensive cars"; "his sexual preferences"; "showed a Marxist orientation"

See also: predilection orientation

noun

the right or chance to choose; "given my druthers, I'd eat cake"

See also: druthers

noun

grant of favor or advantage to one over another (especially to a country or countries in matters of international trade, such as levying duties)