prefer

1. (transitive) To be in the habit of choosing something rather than something else; to favor; to like better.Examples: "I prefer tea to coffee."; "I'd prefer it if you didn't do it."; "I'd prefer to stay home rather than drive/driving in the blizzard."

2. (transitive, now dated) To advance, promote (someone or something).Examples: "So ſhall you haue a ſhorter iourney to your deſires, by the meanes I ſhall then haue to preferre them. And the impediment moſt profitably remoued, without the which there were no expectation of our proſperitie."; "And the maiden pleaſed him, and ſhe obtained kindneſſe of him,[…], and hee preferred her and her maids, vnto the beſt place of the houſe of the women."; "Tiberius preferred many to honours in his time, because they were famous whoremasters and sturdy drinkers[…]."

3. (transitive) To present or submit (something) to an authority (now usually in "to prefer charges").Examples: "[…], let him go, And preſently preferre his ſuite to Cæſar."; "At length the Maroons, who were delighted to have him with them, became diſ­con­tent­ed with his abſence, and for ſeveral years, during the ſeſſions of the Houſe of Aſſembly, preferred repeated complaints againſt him."

4. (obsolete, transitive) To put forward for acceptance; to introduce, recommend (to).Examples: "one Master David Hume, who making some use of his purse, gave him Letters to his friends in Scotland to preferre him to King Iames."; "Such were the arguments which my will boldly preferred to my conscience, as coin which ought to be current; and which conscience, like a grumbling shopkeeper, was contented to accept,[…]."