The phrase "prefer to reduce" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when expressing a choice or inclination towards minimizing something, such as costs, waste, or risks.
Example: "In our efforts to be more sustainable, we prefer to reduce our energy consumption."
Alternatives: "choose to minimize" or "opt to lessen."
Mr. Coors said he would prefer to reduce that debt before embarking on further acquisitions.
"Instead of defending democracy, the sponsors of this bill prefer to reduce it to ashes," they said.
Joseph Brusuelas, chief United States economist for IdeaGlobal, said that Mr. Bernanke would prefer to reduce the limited discount rate rather than cut rates more broadly.
After all, a tax on those negative externalities will reduce their output a little bit, and given the choice between reducing carbon a little bit and reducing income a little bit, wouldn't we prefer to reduce carbon?
It's true that when asked in the broadest sense if they would prefer to reduce the deficit mostly by cutting government programs instead of mostly by raising taxes, Americans chose cutting 53-37 percent. 53-37 percent
Some surgeons prefer to reduce the forehead only by burring it, but Deschamps-Braly, like Ousterhout before him, is committed to procedures that yield more dramatic results — drama, in the context of facial feminization, being measured in millimetres, or in fractions thereof.
Kahan prefers to reduce polarization about climate change by telling people about geoengineering.
She will tell the festival that historians from Plutarch onwards have ignored Helen as a serious figure, preferring to reduce her to an object of sexual obsession.
Mr Morales prefers to reduce autonomy by distributing powers to regions and indigenous communities and to give Congress the right to sack governors.
The taxes from migrant workers could be used to fund it, but the current and previous governments have preferred to reduce the top rate of tax and protect pensioners' benefits.
A Republican whose views have enormous influence among lawmakers from both parties, the Fed chairman did not criticize Mr. Bush's fiscal policies directly and made it clear that he preferred to reduce deficits by spending less rather than taxing more.
