preferable alternative

collocation in English

meaningsofpreferableandalternative

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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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(Definition ofpreferableandalternativefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Expanding the reduced-form model with explanatory variables may introduce serious multicollinearity problems, a reason why decomposition analysis is apreferablealternativefor investigating the origins of change in emissions.
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In this country many of us needed to be satisfied that there was nopreferablealternative.
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Fifthly, what would be the shortest delay involved in starting to plan a new route if anypreferablealternativecould be found?
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He must surely agree that written ministerial statements are apreferablealternativeto planted questions.
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If that is not an appropriate supporting policy for monetarism, what is apreferablealternative?
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Would not the latter be thepreferablealternativeand the most effective?
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The vital point, therefore, is whether there is any practicable andpreferablealternativeto the route now proposed.
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Such a measure was advocated as apreferablealternativeto deficit financing, or, in other words, inflation.
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He also said that price would be apreferablealternativeto quota.
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There has, as a result, been a longish search for apreferablealternative.
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The majority of tenants do not view what is now being done as apreferablealternativein the short term.
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I share his lack of sympathy for those people who beg as apreferablealternativeto 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 thepreferablealternative?
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Thepreferablealternativesuggested 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 apreferablealternative.
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That would be the muchpreferablealternative.
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Any such commitment would be meaningless and could not endure unless apreferablealternativeto 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 lesspreferablealternativethat this particular code could be incorporated in the rules.
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I put forward apreferablealternative.
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A debt restructuring is usually less expensive and apreferablealternativeto bankruptcy.
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