The phrase "asserted preference" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's stated or declared choice or inclination regarding a particular option or situation.
Example: "The survey revealed an asserted preference for remote work among employees, indicating a shift in workplace dynamics."
Alternatives: "stated preference" or "declared preference".
But the Internet world allows customers to take initiative, to talk back, assert preferences and flow quickly to the most responsive sellers.
By early today, the United States had asserted that preference yet again, launching cruise missile attacks on Baghdad.
American psychologist Jeffrey Goldstein has asserted, "These preferences develop early and appear to have biological as well as social origins.
"If he is now asserting his preference to play college football, he cannot show he has been injured by the N.F.L. rule," Roberts said in a telephone interview.
Discrimination may also be of concern, as consumers can directly assert their preferences and their biases in ways that companies are prohibited by law from doing.
Putting our own preferences aside, the awards, in suggesting the industry's image of itself, are the one way that the industry as a whole asserts its preferences in (some) distinction from the box-office results.
Higher levels of female income are associated with women asserting their preferences within the household (Luke and Munshi 2011).
Aboriginal people were labeled as 'non-responsive' because the Western medical system generally expects individuals to conform to the system, assert their preferences and to take control of their personal health care.
For example, if you routinely have difficulty asserting your preferences, the next time your order is taken incorrectly at a restaurant or coffee-shop, politely clarify the situation and ask that it be addressed: "I asked that my steak be cooked medium.
Analyzing the 49ers, Tannenbaum asserted that Bill Walsh's preference for trading back to amass a high volume of selections built San Francisco's core.
But if all the 90-day preference claims asserted in all the lawsuits filed by Mr. Picard were eliminated, it would reduce his potential recovery by another $5.5 billion, according to Mr. Sheehan.
