preferred language

collocation in English

meaningsofpreferredandlanguage

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preferred
adjective
uk
/prɪˈfɜːd/us
/prɪˈfɝːd/
liked or wanted more than ...
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language
noun
uk
/ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪdʒ/us
/ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪdʒ/
a system of communication consisting of sounds, words, ...
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(Definition ofpreferredandlanguagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpreferred language

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All visits were conducted by research staff with phlebotomy certification and fluent in thepreferredlanguageof the household.
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The language chosen for the majority of the situations by the participant was coded as thepreferredlanguage.
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It is thepreferredlanguageof world commerce.
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A major strength of this study was the deployment of interviewers able to conduct assessments in each informant'spreferredlanguage.
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Could it be that, if there were an overallpreferredlanguage, the bilingual's mixed utterances would contain a higher percentage of words in that language?
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For this analysis, the most frequently used language across all sessions was regarded as the child'spreferredlanguage.
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It is also interesting to note how abruptly the children'spreferredlanguagecould switch in so short a period of time.
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As can be seen, there is general agreement in the literature that an individual can have more than onepreferredlanguage, depending upon the language context and/or environment.
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Certain recordings are unusable due to various reasons such as technical failure in the recording instrument or failure to elicit the lesspreferredlanguageon a few occasions.
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For an estimated 70,000 deaf people it is theirpreferredlanguagefor participation in everyday life.
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However, people are sometimes subjected to different treatment because theirpreferredlanguageis associated with a particular group, class or category.
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Undetectable informations (like: thepreferredlanguage, user name, internet name and password), the installer takes over from any pre-existing system.
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Other variations include thepreferredlanguageof the team, metric or imperial measurements, etc.
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It never had the same full official name two years in a row, due to sponsorship andpreferredlanguagechanges.
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French is thepreferredlanguageof the government.
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Commonly, thepreferredlanguageis just another attribute of separate ethnic groups.
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Such a restrictive meaning went against the existing practice, whereby citizens had to declare theirpreferredlanguageonly once.
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Each citizen may choose theirpreferredlanguagewhen conducting business.
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Their children then speak both languages, but the grandchildren only speak the dominant orpreferredlanguageof the new location.
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