indispensable role
collocation in Englishmeaningsofindispensableandrole
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indispensable
adjective
uk/ˌɪn.dɪˈspen.sə.bəl/us/ˌɪn.dɪˈspen.sə.bəl/
Something or someone that is indispensable is so good or important that you could not manage without it, him, ...
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role
noun[C]
uk/rəʊl/us/roʊl/
the position or purpose that someone or something has in a situation, organization, society, ...
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(Definition ofindispensableandrolefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The best reason we have to be ontologically committed to a theoretical entity is that it has anindispensablerolein our best theory.
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On the contrary, the networks played anindispensablerolein the formation of ventures in terms of the supply of information, technology and resources.
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This is due to the fact that such rules play anindispensablerolein appropriating the proper use of linguistic forms.
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Fulbe herdsmen have anindispensableroleto play in the development of local stock production.
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The promotion of these values in the member states requires a continuous educational effort in which the teaching and learning of languages play anindispensablerole.
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Volunteers and the voluntary movement play a crucial andindispensablerolein the social services.
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Adults have, of course, a most important andindispensableroleto play.
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Recently retired men and women already play anindispensablerolein many forms of voluntary activity.
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The first concerns rail transport, which, for technical reasons, has anindispensableroleto play in any scheme involving a tunnel.
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They have anindispensableroleto play in any industrial society.
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Only the nuclear element can confront an aggressor with an unacceptable risk, and thus plays anindispensablerolein the current strategy of war prevention.
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There is anindispensablerolefor the state in ensuring that their vulnerability is not taken advantage of.
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Price and profit play anindispensableroleas the signals of success and failure.
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We believe that human rights defenders play anindispensablerolein society.
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He went on to say how he had now joined the growing numbers who acknowledge the central,indispensableroleof private competitive enterprise in spreading prosperity, property ownership and choice.
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It is indispensable and each part of it has a core,indispensableroleand responsibility and benefits by the very fact of the three parts working well together.
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In democratic societies, journalism and the media play anindispensablerolein educating the public and combating corruption.
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Though the economy is well-diversified, agriculture continues to play anindispensablerolethrough its profitability and foreign exchange earnings via exports.
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In the 1970s, however, new research showed that secondary plant metabolites play anindispensablerolein the survival of the plant in its environment.
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