Preferment Synonyms

prĭ-fûrmənt
Promotion
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. elevation
  2. raise
  3. advancement
Priority
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. attention
  2. precedence
  3. station

Words Related to Preferment

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. promotion
  2. rank
  3. canonry
  4. at all events

Preferment Sentence Examples

  • Their motives were purely selfish; not God's cause but their own, not religion but power and preferment, were what they sought.'

  • His preferment was rapid.

  • Personal experience of the inconveniences and dangers of the prevailing system of preferment, the so-called myestnichestvo, or rank priority, which had paralysed the Russian armies for centuries, induced him to propose its abolition, which was accomplished by Tsar Theodore III.

  • His own hopes of preferment had been strengthened by the death of many of the higher clergy at Flodden.

  • The best proof of his not being ambitious of such a doubtful piece of preferment is that he made no attempt to get himself made king, regent or lieutenant-general of the kingdom at the time of the flight to Varennes in June 1791.

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