preferment

基本解释

After the WTO published its judgment, the Chinese Preferment Mission to the WTO responded.
在WTO公布其判决之后，中国驻世贸组织代表团回应了此事。
Backbenchers fear the ghoulish tortures of whips and the lost chance of preferment that rudeness about the prime minister might incur.
后座议员害怕残忍的鞭打刑讯和失去关于首相可能招致粗蛮的表现机会。
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.
还有一点我认为也很重要；他对每一个人都得殷勤和蔼，特别是那些提拔他的人。

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.