primary beneficiary

collocation in English

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primary
adjective
uk
/ˈpraɪ.mər.i/us
/ˈpraɪ.mer.i/
more important than anything ...
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beneficiary
noun[C]
uk
/ˌben.əˈfɪʃ.ər.i/us
/ˌben.əˈfɪʃ.i.er.i/
a person or group who receives money, advantages, etc. as a result of ...
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(Definition ofprimaryandbeneficiaryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Identifying theprimarybeneficiarywill play an important role in any assessment of new policies.
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It is the investor who has used up his £5,000 worth of capital gains tax relief who is theprimarybeneficiary.
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As a result, he has made education aprimarybeneficiaryfor his charitable contributions.
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Like the programs mentioned above, the end user is theprimarybeneficiaryof this simplified method of distributing information.
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Theprimarybeneficiaryof such a model are management tools, which can enumerate and view resources, even if they have no other knowledge of them.
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However, if theprimarybeneficiaryor beneficiaries are not alive or do not qualify under the restrictions, the assets will probably pass to the "contingent beneficiaries".
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Chicago has no area lighthouse preservation group, and this light has been theprimarybeneficiaryof preservation efforts in the area.
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By the 1860s, it was already an old joke that lawyers were the primary beneficiaries of bankruptcy law.
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The policy documents stress that the challenge is foremost to ensure that poor households are the primary beneficiaries of the free services policy and associated resources.
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Thus, an appropriate share of the cost of the programs for research, assessment, monitoring, and management should be borne by the primary beneficiaries of those programs.
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Because friends or family members are not expected to be the primary beneficiaries of the research, making them responsible for its costs would place an unfair burden on them.
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The primary beneficiaries from the increase will be mental patients who have slowly built up savings while under care.
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The primary beneficiaries will be those who live in extremely disadvantaged rural areas where the consequences of the disaster are most acute.
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The primary beneficiaries of the property tax are county boards of education.
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Hospitals, clinics, municipal waste facilities, farms, slaughterhouses, supermarkets, ports, sea vessels, and airports are the primary beneficiaries of on-site waste conversion.
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According, the primary beneficiaries for the first six months were freedmen who were in desperate need of land to till.
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The primary beneficiaries were the ordinary citizens.
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It differs from traditional metrics in that it does not focus on measuring deliverables and its effects on primary beneficiaries but on behavioural change exhibited by secondary beneficiaries.
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