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A preordering (also called a weak ordering or a quasi-ordering) is a reflexive and transitive binary relation which is not necessarily complete.
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Blackorby, C. (2018). Preordering. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_1294
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