liquidity preference
preference
adjective
 FINANCE, STOCK MARKETuk /ˈprefərəns/us
used to describe a company's shares that have the right to fixed dividends (= payments from profits) before the dividends on its ordinary shares are calculated and paid in a particular period, or in periods when dividends on these shares are not paid at all:
Nokia is to increase its capital with about $100 million of new preference stock.

Examples of preference

preference
Preference will be given to material which is clearly interdisciplinary.
Repeating this process with a sample group permits the efficient collection of a substantial data set concerning underlying preferences.
We emphasize the need to assume uniformity of extended preferences among individual observers; otherwise, the ordinary utilitarian formula cannot be derived.
Mere preferences independent of evaluation are excluded, although they provide goals in the ordinary sense.
But the preferences are purely ordinal and non-comparable across persons.
Fifty-two participants (53 %) returned the questionnaire on interview preference.
Residents who had been involved in preference relocations stressed the importance of having choices for their initial and subsequent moves into, within and between care-homes.
Depending on the market context, preference, type of technical change, and the nature of the crop, the net effect could go in any direction.
In primary schools, the class teacher teaches all the subjects in the curriculum to the class, regardless of his preferences, flair and interests.
Of course adaptation to consumers' preferences took on a specific form.
The party preference equation represents the selection process that determined which respondents were asked the strategic party switching question.
The salience of family relationships is supported by findings from studies that address patient experiences, preferences, and needs.
The right panel shows the structural relation between resistance to change and preference.
The results also demonstrate the ability to simultaneously follow complex end-effector and mobile base trajectories with a natural preference given to end-effector tracking performance.
But attitudes and preferences to filial responsibilities and caring tasks could be changing.
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Collocations withpreference

preference

These are words often used in combination with preference.

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aesthetic preference
Quantifying aestheticpreference for chaotic patterns.
clear preference
There was a clearpreference ordering.
customer preference
I know that trading conditions are difficult and that there is a decline in demand as changes in customerpreference work through.
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