preferential

The academy changed the voting rules this year to include 10 Best Picture nominees with preferential ballots.

Literary shareholders to the amount of 500 and upwards will be entitled to a preferential boom by way of bonus.

Ownership of claim confers the right to reside thereon, and preferential right to a lease.

In nearly every state where there had been a preferential primary Mr. Roosevelt had carried the day.

Preferential mating, he thinks, produces in the long run, persons of exceptional talent.

This is the weak point in Preferential Voting; any small section can ensure the rejection of a general favourite.