preferred form
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpreferredandform
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preferred
adjective
uk/prɪˈfɜːd/us/prɪˈfɝːd/
liked or wanted more than ...
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form
noun
uk/fɔːm/us/fɔːrm/
a paper or set of papers printed with spaces in which answers to questions can be written or information can be recorded in an ...
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(Definition ofpreferredandformfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Locationals are thepreferredform, and no restrictions were observed on their use in introducing referents.
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In elected regimes worldwide, more citizens support democracy as theirpreferredformof government than express satisfaction with the way that it actually works.
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Both sources instead identify thepreferredformas who else's.
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Its immobility makes it apreferredformof collateral in credit markets, conferring additional utility, particularly where production risk cannot be insured.
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With negated objects, however, movement was actually thepreferredformin the earlier part of the data.
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Both trials that asked specifically aboutpreferredform/place of care29,38 found that intermediate care was the preferred option.
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Caregivers should be willing to find out each resident'spreferredformof address and make an effort to accommodate them.
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For a clear and concise representation of the 10 analysis, the score remains thepreferredform.
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Thepreferredformis (a), which obeys the high ranking constraints.
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Cinema was thepreferredformof consumption, but dance halls and magazines also took up a good part of their expenditure.
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And yet animals remained thepreferredformin which to store money; a form which, barring catastrophe, allowed it to grow into, and accumulate, social worth.
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For many—especially those with very young children —that is thepreferredformof child care; but for more it is not.
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Surveys have shown that owner-occupation is far and away thepreferredformof tenure for the majority of people.
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They will have a vote about thepreferredformof unitary local government for their area.
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Therefore, from the taxpayer's perspective, as well as that of the patient, a renal transplant is infinitely thepreferredformof treatment for kidney failure.
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Most of the patients are on the waiting list not because long-term dialysis is unsuitable for them but because transplantation is thepreferredformof treatment.
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There will be a second vote, affecting all the people living in areas where there is currently two-tier local government, on theirpreferredformof unitary local government.
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For example, a social movement organization may initially be composed of protesters who largely think that non-violent mass demonstrations are thepreferredformof protest.
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Where national conservative parties were weak or non-existent, conservatives were more likely to rely on military dictatorship as apreferredformof government.
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