rather than

English

And not.
Used to indicate that the following alternative is less preferred.
I'd like to go home early rather than risk the roads later.
- 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:
  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 up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.

and not

to indicate that the following alternative is less preferred

Arabic: بَدَلًا مِن (badalan min)
Egyptian Arabic: بدل ما (badal ma), أحسن ما (ʔaḥsan ma)
Bulgarian: вместо (bg) (vmesto)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 毋寧／毋宁 (zh) (wúnìng)
Czech: raději než
French: plutôt que (fr)
German: statt (de)
Italian: anziché (it)
Latin: potius quam
Norwegian: heller (no)
Polish: a nie
Scottish Gaelic: seach
Slovak: radšej než
Spanish: antes que, en vez de
Vietnamese: hơn là, thay vì (vi)

instead of, in preference to

Arabic: أَكْثَر مِن (ʔakṯar min), عَنّ (ar) (ʕann)
Egyptian Arabic: أكتر من (ʔaktar men), عن (ʕann)
Bulgarian: вместо (bg) (vmesto)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 與其／与其 (zh) (yǔqí)
Czech: raději než, namísto (cs)
Dutch: in plaats van (nl)
French: au lieu de (fr), à la place de (fr), plus que (fr)
German: statt (de)
Irish: seachas
Italian: anziché (it)
Malagasy: noho (mg)
Norwegian: heller enn
Polish: a nie, zamiast (pl)
Portuguese: a (pt)
Scottish Gaelic: seach
Spanish: en vez de
Tagalog: imbes
Ukrainian: за́мість то́го (zámistʹ tóho)
Vietnamese: hơn là, thay vì (vi)
Yoruba: kàkà

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