"prefer" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

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prefer + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 75
prefer soils • prefer water • prefer the company • prefer areas • prefer women • ...
prefer + preposición
Kolokacji: 18
prefer over • prefer by • prefer to • preferred for • prefer in • ...
prefer + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 22
generally prefer • actually prefer • simply prefer • personally prefer • clearly prefer • ...
3. personally prefer = osobiście wól personally prefer
5. far prefer = daleko woleć far prefer
6. naturally prefer = naturalnie wól naturally prefer
8. definitely prefer = z pewnością wól definitely prefer
9. infinitely prefer = nieskończenie wól infinitely prefer
10. evidently prefer = wyraźnie wól evidently prefer
12. long preferred = długo woleć long preferred
  • Congress has long preferred outside fees to the political heat a pay raise might bring.
  • It sounds like the kind of company that investors, who have long preferred pure-play stocks to conglomerates, would hate.
  • Health officials have long preferred to rely on infected people to behave responsibly rather than resort to compulsory orders.
  • That may well be true, but copyright holders have long preferred the term, with its suggestions of theft, destruction, and violence.
  • Adelson has long preferred a low profile in many of his political activities.
  • Humans have long preferred topsoil to the subterranean, but some designers are looking to change that.
  • In corporate Japan, companies have long preferred to run with the pack.
  • He has long preferred to leave running the country to the prime minister and cabinet, focusing instead on foreign policy.
  • Although 86 percent of vacations are taken by car, business travelers have long preferred to fly.
  • He has long preferred to leave the public relations to his more charismatic doubles partner, John Newcombe.
13. increasingly prefer = coraz bardziej wól increasingly prefer
14. initially prefer = początkowo wól initially prefer
(2) simply, strongly, most, well
Kolokacji: 4
(3) greatly, vastly, normally
Kolokacji: 3

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