chief concern

collocation in English

meaningsofchiefandconcern

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chief
adjective[before noun]
uk
/tʃiːf/us
/tʃiːf/
most important ...
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concern
noun
uk
/kənˈsɜːn/us
/kənˈsɝːn/
a worried or nervous feeling about something, or something that makes you ...
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(Definition ofchiefandconcernfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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To this end, theirchiefconcernwas to safeguard access both to the mechanisms of traditional solidarity and to the means and factors of production.
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However, there is a need to be clear about precisely which form of safety arguments are ofchiefconcern.
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Theirchiefconcernwas maintaining a sense of style, fluency and nuance.
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Rather, hischiefconcernwas with another development of modern history: the levelling of society.
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In this paper arguments from symbolic value to moral value are ourchiefconcern.
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The essays'chiefconcernis with the sources for the study of the eremitic life : their survival, location and character, and the methodological and interpretative problems that attend them.
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Indeed, theirchiefconcernwas to close railway lines as quickly as they built up their administrative empires.
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Mychiefconcernto-day is that local government shall not be denuded of its essentially local element.
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Manpower is a very big question indeed and the people whosechiefconcernit is look at it from many different points of view.
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Itschiefconcernwas to hold such advantages as it had.
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That is mychiefconcernabout these proposals and their long-term effect.
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That was mychiefconcernin drafting the amendment in this way.
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Thechiefconcernis that the provision applies to all existing options.
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However, mychiefconcernis the vital importance of ensuring that we continue to maintain these highly professional services in an operational state.
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Mychiefconcernis in regard to the young children, who are too young to know what the war was about.
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That is mychiefconcernat the moment.
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Ourchiefconcern, of course, must be with the prevention of these horrors.
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Mychiefconcernhas been the threat to our good relations with one of our oldest and most faithful allies.
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Mychiefconcernat the moment is how we shall gain time for ourselves to do that.
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Mychiefconcernis to avoid directly helping regimes which commit gross and persistent violations of human rights.
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