Meaning & use
Unpreferred
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Not preferred or favored over other options.
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Passengers were assigned to the unpreferred seats after the flight was overbooked.
The bank's unpreferred shares carry lower priority for dividend payments.
A note on using this word
Commonly appears in finance, where 'unpreferred stock' is contrasted with 'preferred stock,' which has priority claims on assets and earnings.
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less favored
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