preferred option

collocation in English

meanings of preferredand option

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preferred
adjective
uk /prɪˈfɜːd/ us /prɪˈfɝːd/
liked or wanted more than ...
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option
noun
uk /ˈɒp.ʃən/ us /ˈɑːp.ʃən/
one thing that can be chosen from a set of possibilities, or the freedom to make ...
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Examples of preferred option

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If a respondent fails to choose the superior option as the preferredoption, this could reflect the respondent's difficulty in understanding the experiment.
Both aspects are directed and energized by the motivation to act on the preferredoption.
Using the discrete choice method, individuals are asked to make several pairwise comparisons of alternative scenarios and indicate which would be their preferredoption.
The participants were requested to list the problems they faced in choosing their preferredoption.
An alternative approach is the use of the benefitsto-costs ratio in which the highest ratio is deemed to be the preferredoption (2).
What is socially prestigious or pedagogically correct is not always the preferredoption for many speakers.
In choice experiments, respondents choose their most preferredoption among different alternatives.
His preferredoption is theory of mind ability, which underpins processes of cultural learning and cultural accumulation and transmission.
It would then be up to the performers and/or composer of the work to decide whether this was the preferredoption.
Respondents are asked to choose their preferredoption from each choice set.
For these women, induction of labour with prostaglandins may be the preferredoption.
However, this does not make the military regime a preferredoption.
A vacation together with their spouse may be the preferredoption for some spouse/carers.
Both trials that asked specifically about preferred form/place of care29,38 found that intermediate care was the preferredoption.
At least in this case, judicial independence is not a preferredoption even for the courts themselves.
It should be noted, however, that punishment for rehabilitation is the preferredoption for parents with retributive punishment just a fallback option.
Of these various alternatives, air stripping of extracted water followed by thermal oxidation of the volatile chlorinated hydrocarbons was selected as the preferredoption.
Nor is 0 avoided in writing; rather, it appears to be the preferredoption for all restrictive object relatives.
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