prevalent form
collocation in Englishmeaningsofprevalentandform
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prevalent
adjective
uk/ˈprev.əl.ənt/us/ˈprev.əl.ənt/
existing very commonly or ...
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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 ofprevalentandformfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The simple family was the mostprevalentformand constituted about 47 per cent of households.
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I would therefore like to focus specifically on how this latter period, when virilocal marriage became theprevalentform, should be evaluated.
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The mostprevalentformof rumour in this period related to proposed increases in prices or taxation, and often resulted in a riot or protest.
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In the late medieval period virilocal marriage became theprevalentformof marriage.
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As such, the mostprevalentformof purification is chlorination, where chlorine tablets are distributed (free of cost for the household) by the state public health department.
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Hire-purchase was not so very long ago the mostprevalentformof credit purchase.
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The new clause does not deal with the moreprevalentformof intimidation by employers against workers and union members.
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This is not only the mostprevalentformof misery, it is the most acute form of misery, too.
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Lenticular galaxies are theprevalentformin rich galaxy clusters, which suggests that spirals may be transformed into lenticular galaxies as time progresses.
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The mostprevalentformis the ratcheting socket wrench, often called a ratchet.
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This position on property is much different from the thenprevalentformof individualist anarchism, which defended the inviolability of the private property that has been earned through labour.
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This was theprevalentformof playing the 5-string banjo until the advent of the guitar style of up-picking in the late 1860s, also referred to as finger-picking.
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Other prevalent forms of economic activity within the city are in trade and services industries.
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They represent one of the most prevalent forms of parasitic disease.
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The sound meshed together the two prevalent forms of music with which he grew upwhich involved the tunefulness of country and the distorted guitars/fast tempo from rock and roll.
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