preferential

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Tech Mahindra may have to ask Satyam Computer Services for a preferential issues of shares to continue its bid to take over the troubled outsourcer.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or giving advantage or preference: preferential treatment.
  2. adjective Manifesting or originating from partiality or preference: preferential tariff rates.

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  • Future Group has embarked on a major revamp of its retail arm Pantaloon Retail and it also plans to raise Rs 14-15 billion through a preferential issue of shares to promoters and private equity players. —  News Centre@myiris.com India's Most Comprehensive Financial Destination
  • The company has allotted 30,00,000 equity shares arising out of conversion of preferential issue of convertible warrants. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • Also, Track Your Trades enables you to clearly see whether the shares you own are eligible for the preferential (lower) long-term capital gains tax, and if so, exactly how many shares are long-term shares. —  Softpedia - Windows - All
  • For that they will have to make a preferential issue. —  dailyindia.com News Feed
  • Solidarity has to do with the sharing of both spiritual and material goods, and with what the Church calls the preferential option for the poor. —  jillstanek.com
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  1. from preference (Middle Latin præferentia) + -ial.
 

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/prɛfəˈrɛnʃəl/
by Parker Smith
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