important role

collocation in English

meaningsofimportantandrole

These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or,see other collocations withrole.
important
adjective
uk
/ɪmˈpɔː.tənt/
us
/ɪmˈpɔːr.tənt/
necessary or of ...
See more atimportant
role
noun[C]
uk
/rəʊl/
us
/roʊl/
the position or purpose that someone or something has in a situation, organization, society, ...
See more atrole

(Definition ofimportantandrolefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofimportant role

These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
In sickness or in health, in life or in death, in wedding ceremonies, pigs played animportantrolein all of them.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Genome-wide scan for body composition in pigs revealsimportantroleof imprinting.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Clarification requests play animportantrolein effective conversations, and children must learn the conversational rules for interpreting and responding to such requests.
From theCambridge English Corpus
There is substantial evidence that serotonergic systems play animportantrole.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Thus, singularity analysis plays animportantrolein the design of any parallel manipulator.
From theCambridge English Corpus
A well-developed print culture plays animportantrolein this.
From theCambridge English Corpus
An analogous argument suggests animportantrolefor the return-to-isotropy term in the vertical flux equation, in accord with our observations above.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Their relative magnitudes can be expected to play animportantrolein determining the flow structure in the vicinity of the plate.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The shadow of legal controls plays animportantrolein shaping the constitutional culture and therefore the horizon of possibilities within which political actors operate.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Thus, while controlling for all the significant variables, unconventional behavior did play animportantroleat a number of developmental stages.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The local eighteenth-century legal traditions also played animportantrolein shaping modern colonial legal culture.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Economic restructuring has played animportantrolein reducing pollution in economies in transition.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Hence, we can understand that the screening atomic effect plays animportantrolein atomic collisions in non-ideal plasmas.
From theCambridge English Corpus
This is also visible in a thirdimportantroleof exiles: the development of new ideas.
From theCambridge English Corpus
This also affirms the fact that infectious diseases play animportantrolein selection for heterozygosity within the species.
From theCambridge English Corpus
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
Want to learn more?
Go to the definition ofimportant
Go to the definition ofrole
See other collocations withrole