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n. The act of advancing to a higher position or office; promotion.

n. A position, appointment, or rank giving advancement, as of profit or prestige.

n. The act of preferring or the state of being preferred.

n. The act of choosing, or the state of being chosen; preference.

n. The act of preferring, or advancing in dignity or office; the state of being advanced; promotion.

n. A position or office of honor or profit.

n. The act of preferring or esteeming more highly, or the state of being preferred; choice; preference; advancement; promotion.

n. A superior place or office, especially in the church.

n. the act of preferring

n. the act of making accusations

"The news which the mayor had just given him of his preferment was the determining reason that decided him to plunge into the scheme which he now for the first time revealed to his wife; he believed it would enable him to give up perfumery all the more quickly, and rise into the regions of the higher bourgeoisie of Paris."

promotion    accusal    accusation   

preference    promotion    advanced   

advancement    aggrandizement    emolument    amelioration    honors