preferred outcome
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpreferredandoutcome
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preferred
adjective
uk/prɪˈfɜːd/us/prɪˈfɝːd/
liked or wanted more than ...
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outcome
noun[C usually singular]
uk/ˈaʊt.kʌm/us/ˈaʊt.kʌm/
a result or effect of an action, ...
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(Definition ofpreferredandoutcomefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofpreferred outcome
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Single market regime competition is thepreferredoutcomefor neoliberals.
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And if so, when they come into conflict in other cultural and linguistic groups, is the preference for progressivity thepreferredoutcome?
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Thus, even when one's vote has no effect on the collective decision, voting for one'spreferredoutcomeis an assertion of being able to cause.
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However, when is high, it is private provision with regulation that emerges as thepreferredoutcome.
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But the liberty-right does not imply that others have correlative duties to allow the liberty-holder to achieve hispreferredoutcome.
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But teaching as education - drawing out the student's innate musicality - was always thepreferredoutcome.
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On the other hand, subsidization of private providers is thepreferredoutcomeonly when the elasticity of substitution is sufficiently low and the production externality is sufficiently high.
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For each member reasons that the expected marginal impact of his vote on thepreferredoutcomeis so negligible that even a trifling inconvenience is enough to outweigh it.
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One would assume that initial-link responding that leads to apreferredoutcomewould be more resistant to change than responding that leads to an outcome that is not preferred.
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Rather, the distinct power-holder may choose to ignore the claimholder's self-regarding choices, and thereby interfere with the claimholder's freedom to achieve apreferredoutcomewithin his protected domain.
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The benefit of our proposal is that each party'spreferredoutcomeis possible.
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I would have expected some assessment of thepreferredoutcomeof the experiment.
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While the scrutiny team has been asked to consider rationalisation, there is no presumption that this is the likely orpreferredoutcome.
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Thepreferredoutcomeprovides the motivation for the level of processing involved.
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That is, where regardless of other individuals' preferences, the social planner will not select the decisive individual's leastpreferredoutcome"from that pair".
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Consequently, once the median voter'spreferredoutcomeis reached, it can not be defeated by another in a pairwise majoritarian election.
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To forgo pursuing our most preferred outcomes for reasons of feasibility is not insincerity.
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