prefer

verb4

1. •
   to like something more than something else, and usually to choose it

   • I prefer tea to coffee.
   • I'd prefer it if you didn't do it.
2. •
   To present or submit (something) to an authority (now usually in "to prefer charges").

   • […], let him go, And presently preferre his suite to Caesar. — 1599
3. •
   (old-fashioned) To advance, promote (someone or something).

   • 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. — 1611
4. •
   (no longer used) To put forward for acceptance; to introduce, recommend (to).

   • 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. — 1630