important function
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important
adjective
uk/ɪmˈpɔː.tənt/us/ɪmˈpɔːr.tənt/
necessary or of ...
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function
noun
uk/ˈfʌŋk.ʃən/us/ˈfʌŋk.ʃən/
the natural purpose (of something) or the duty (of ...
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(Definition ofimportantandfunctionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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At the same time it fulfils animportantfunction.
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For this aim, local government had animportantfunction.
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Oneimportantfunctionof songs was accordingly to spread political and religious ideas.
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In fact, making explicit such implicit requirements can be animportantfunctionof the formalisation process.
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The mostimportantfunctionof secularism is to keep law and religion apart.
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In this respect the state security organs had animportantfunction.
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Thus, detection is the mostimportantfunctionof attention for language processing.
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Animportantfunctionof grammar textbooks is the introduction of new vocabulary.
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As such it is a power-regulating device and therefore has animportantfunction.
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While it did not provide material aid, it fulfilled another mostimportantfunction.
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Animportantfunctionwas to define the boundary between dementia and delirium.
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In a linguistic melting pot, communication was animportantfunctionfor the workers too.
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It combines linguistics and language teaching, which is the mostimportantfunctionof applied linguistics.
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The often criticized tangle of plots and subplots in a typical eighteenth-century libretto had one veryimportantfunction.
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Conveying information about the evaluation or potency of a modified entity is animportantfunctionof some adjectives.
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Animportantfunctionrequired after merging of plans as well as applying precedences is to "clean up" the plan graph.
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To further understand theimportantfunctionof the carpet cell we are studying genes expressed in this cell type.
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In the present context, its mostimportantfunctionis to ensure the exhaustive parsing of syllables into feet.
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That is animportantfunction.
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It is animportantfunction.
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The function of the governed in such a democratic system is a veryimportantfunction, but it is also a strictly limited one.
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This is to miss animportantfunctionof respite care, as rehabilitation can be carried out when patients are in care.
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They are right to suspect that we would be loath to remove this rule; it serves theimportantfunctionof preventing hallucinations.
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