primary duty

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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duty
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈdʒuː.ti/us
/ˈduː.t̬i/
something that you have to do because it is part of your job, or something that you feel is the right thing ...
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(Definition ofprimaryanddutyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofprimary duty

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This is theprimaryduty.
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Peace is ourprimaryduty.
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What was hisprimaryduty?
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I emphasise "itsprimaryduty".
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After all, it is theirprimaryduty.
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Myprimarydutyis to the soldiers.
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Myprimarydutyis to find supplies.
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Itsprimarydutyis to provide transport.
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That was the council'sprimarydutyas a housing authority.
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I cannot see that that is theirprimaryduty.
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Ourprimarydutyis to provide sound money.
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Hisprimarydutywas to keep me in order.
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We have aprimarydutyto defend ourselves.
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The corporation'sprimarydutyis operation with the maximum efficiency.
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Theprimarydutyof control falls to them.
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They, like us, must never forget thisprimaryduty.
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Clearly they have thus failed in theirprimaryduty.
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It will have aprimarydutytowards the consumer.
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Theirprimarydutyto govern rests on their wisdom (and perhaps on their theoretical authority) in spotting coordination problems that need a solution.
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In such cases it is a servant's connection with musical instruments and music that implies that hisprimarydutywas of a musical nature.
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Courts are virtually always called upon to apply some secondary legal duty, thereby authoritatively resolving some particular dispute over the violation of someprimaryduty.
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In this case it seems that theprimarydutyof the physicians to this patient is to provide him the necessary medical care.
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This could put intensivists in a conflict of interest between theirprimarydutyto critically ill patients with viable organs and their secondary duty to promote transplantation.
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But the claim for a reasonable payment cannot be explained in this way, and it is difficult to see how the claim is related to thisprimaryduty.
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