primary concern
collocation in Englishmeaningsofprimaryandconcern
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primary
adjective
uk/ˈpraɪ.mər.i/us/ˈpraɪ.mer.i/
more important than anything ...
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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 ofprimaryandconcernfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofprimary concern
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Elite appeals to the small electoral impact of the industrial working class could not have been theprimaryconcern.
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Like most granular synthesis programs itsprimaryconcernwas the distribution of grains of sound in time.
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Perspectives hospital-based committees, whoseprimaryconcernhad been to provide research project review, disappeared almost completely.
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The need of abstraction is aprimaryconcern.
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As we stressed at the outset, the latter is ourprimaryconcern.
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However, efficient support for processing multidimensional arrays must be aprimaryconcernfor language design, implementation, and parallelization.
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Theprimaryconcernof the chapter is physiology as it relates to psychology.
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Because security is theprimaryconcernof these communities, each tries to enhance its security by strengthening its position.
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Ourprimaryconcernin this study is with the word class distinction between nouns and verbs.
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Theprimaryconcernof cross-cultural gerontology is the study of how socio-cultural settings define and shape the experience of ageing.
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Ourprimaryconcernhere, however, is memory load.
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But these are not in themselves ourprimaryconcern.
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Recall that ourprimaryconcernis not with behaviour in market relationships, but with perceptions of those relationships.
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None of these papers consider either power loss or acoustic impedance, which is theprimaryconcernof the present paper.
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Theprimaryconcernof defining node classes is to denote coercions of node types that possess common properties.
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As a social scientist (anthropologist), myprimaryconcernabout the book was its methodology.
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Ourprimaryconcernis the impact of public assistance on public opinion.
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They helped to reconstruct a shared identity, affecting particularly milieus and individuals for whom politics was not aprimaryconcern.
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Theirprimaryconcernat first was to keep a lid on the loud cries for military intervention coming from local resident associations.
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For these speakers, theprimaryconcernis the decline in proficiency and the need to maintain a certain standard.
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