preferent

English

Adjective

preferent (not comparable)

1. Preferred or favoured.
   • 1823, William Wilberforce Bird, ‎Henry Thomas Colebrooke, State of the Cape of Good Hope, in 1822 (page 290)

     The proceeds of the estate shall be distributed, first to the preferent creditors, in the order in which they respectively succeed, and then the remainder among the concurrent creditors, by dividend; […]