preferment

基本解釋

After the WTO published its judgment, the Chinese Preferment Mission to the WTO responded.
在WTO公佈其判決之後，中國駐世貿(mào)組織代表團(tuán)廻應(yīng)了此事。
Backbenchers fear the ghoulish tortures of whips and the lost chance of preferment that rudeness about the prime minister might incur.
後座議員害怕殘忍的鞭打刑訊和失去關(guān)於首相可能招致粗蠻的表現(xiàn)機(jī)會。
And I do not think it of light importance that he should have attentive and conciliatory manners towards every body, especially towards those to whom he owes his preferment.
還有一點(diǎn)我認(rèn)爲(wèi)也很重要；他對每一個(gè)人都得殷勤和藹，特別是那些提拔他的人。

So was Mr Dobson pushed, or was he lured by a promise of future preferment?
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Colleagues vie with each other for preferment, yet must collaborate closely to fend off competition from without.
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But, once entrenched, job-preferment policies tend to benefit the better off, become meaninglessly broad and hard to undo.
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Preferment is the act of being given a better and more important job in an organization.