From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishprefermentpre‧fer‧ment /prɪˈfɜːmənt $ -ɜːr-/ noun [uncountable] formalBERRCUP when someone is given a more important job
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preferment• By January 1989 nineteen of her twenty-one Cabinet ministers owed their first preferment to her.• Obvious answers first: he hopes for preferment.• Then an extraordinary chance gave the barber's son the connections which he needed for preferment.• Renewed prospects opened up for preferment in Ireland.• For others there may be a lack of preferment and other problems of staleness and complacency.• Alternatively, such an entry might mean a temporary absence, on Church business if not a foray in quest of preferment.• His own preferment was not a little due to his discerning hospitality.• Western gunfights were alcohol-related, or else involved battles over gambling, prostitution, or political preferment.From Longman Business Dictionaryprefermentpre‧fer‧ment /prɪˈfɜːmənt-ɜːr-/ noun [uncountable] formal when someone is given a more important jobHe is hoping for political preferment. 