preferment
Example Sentences
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When whips or cabinet ministers warn colleagues that they may be killing off hope of a ministerial career if they rebel, the calculation may be that they are unlikely to receive preferment in any case.
From BBC • Jun. 25, 2025
A biga is an Italian-style preferment typically left for around 12 hours to ripen, bringing additional flavor and textural benefits to the final dough.
From Salon • Jul. 7, 2021
When the prime minister of the day describes you as a “career psychopath”, your chances of preferment in the political world may not seem rosy.
From The Guardian • Feb. 6, 2020
A faction from one section of a colony struggled with enemies from another over place and preferment, and so on.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
Letting Algernon out of his cage would throw the meeting into chaos, and after all this was Burt’s debut into the rat-race of academic preferment.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
