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Conjunction

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ratherthan

  1. Andnot.
  2. Used to indicate that the following alternative is less preferred.
    I'd like to go home earlyrather than risk(ing) the roads later.
    I prefer making my kids' toys myselfrather than buying them.
    It was my wife,rather than I, who decided to leave.
    It is never better to let kids have their way whenever they wishrather than standing up for one's parental authority.
    • 1957 June, “Notes and News: Cheap Mid-Week Tickets Reintroduced”, inRailway Magazine, page433:
      Cheap mid-week return tickets were reintroduced by British Railways on May 7, to encourage holiday travel during the weekrather than at weekends.
    • 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, inThe Economist, volume407, number8839, page55:
      According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay uprather than face the costs of a legal battle.

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and not
to indicate that the following alternative is less preferred

Preposition

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ratherthan

  1. instead of; in preference to.
    I'd prefer a dograther than a cat.

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instead of, in preference to
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