I've got a few questions about your life here - let's start with, well, what's your preferred means of getting around town?

Bicycles are the preferred means of travel in many countries.

By the early 1980s, hard-currency payments had become the preferred means of settlement.

The preferred means of travel to Dadanawa is by jeep.

The resort to force, of course, need not be the first or preferred means of intervention.

It is his preferred means of communication, fitting for one so mean with words.

At the same time, small planes have become drug rings' preferred means of transport.

The preferred means of transport for getting around Rovinj is by car.

But for regular conversation, signing still seems to be the preferred means of communication.

Running in numbers is the preferred means of protection.