FINANCE,STOCK MARKETwritten abbreviationforpreferenceadjective(Definition ofpreffrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofpref
prefDifferent debatersprefdifferent judges depending on their past experiences and styles.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Updated with a newpref.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Theprefoperator constructs prefix-closed structures, while the projection operator hides internal symbols; finally, the weave operator expresses instantaneous synchronisation.From theCambridge English CorpusWe achieve this by encoding each basic desire as a set of rules and by developing two sets of rules sat andpref.From theCambridge English CorpusObserve that for a desire with desire(n )pref() we have thatpref().From theCambridge English CorpusThese answer sets are used as inputs for the programpref, which is defined next.From theCambridge English CorpusWe are now ready to define the set of rulespref(), which consists of the rules encoding and the rules encoding the computation of w .From theCambridge English CorpusThe next theorem proves the correctness ofpref().From theCambridge English CorpusThis is done as follows: (n ) = 0 if desire(n )pref() (i. e., if is a desire); (n ) = 1 if preference(n )pref() and = 1 2 .From theCambridge English CorpusTo account for the structure of the preference, we associate an integer, denoted by (n ), to each constant n such that preference(n )pref() or desire(n )pref().From theCambridge English CorpusThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/pref##
