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词汇 example_english_preferable-alternative
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preferable alternative

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meanings of preferableand alternative


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preferable
adjective
uk /ˈpref.ər.ə.bəl/ us /ˈpref.ər.ə.bəl/
better or ...
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alternative
noun[C]
uk /ɒlˈtɜː.nə.tɪv/ us /ɑːlˈtɝː.nə.t̬ɪv/
something that is different from something else, especially from what is usual, and offering the possibility ...
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Examples of preferable alternative


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Expanding the reduced-form model with explanatory variables may introduce serious multicollinearity problems, a reason why decomposition analysis is a preferablealternative for investigating the origins of change in emissions.
In this country many of us needed to be satisfied that there was no preferablealternative.
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Fifthly, what would be the shortest delay involved in starting to plan a new route if any preferablealternative could be found?
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He must surely agree that written ministerial statements are a preferablealternative to planted questions.
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If that is not an appropriate supporting policy for monetarism, what is a preferablealternative?
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Would not the latter be the preferablealternative and the most effective?
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The vital point, therefore, is whether there is any practicable and preferablealternative to the route now proposed.
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Such a measure was advocated as a preferablealternative to deficit financing, or, in other words, inflation.
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He also said that price would be a preferablealternative to quota.
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There has, as a result, been a longish search for a preferablealternative.
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The majority of tenants do not view what is now being done as a preferablealternative in the short term.
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I share his lack of sympathy for those people who beg as a preferablealternative to taking up work.
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Were we wrong to take the view that prescription charges, with generous exemptions for those who might be hurt by them, was the preferablealternative?
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The preferablealternative suggested in the amendment is that an error in two returns in a five-year period would trigger the loss of the certificate.
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Then they might see that there is a preferablealternative.
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That would be the much preferablealternative.
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Any such commitment would be meaningless and could not endure unless a preferablealternative to parity changes were made available if there were changes in comparative productivity.
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But if there are to be rules it might be considered as a third and less preferablealternative that this particular code could be incorporated in the rules.
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I put forward a preferablealternative.
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A debt restructuring is usually less expensive and a preferablealternative to bankruptcy.
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