primary goal

collocation in English

meaningsofprimaryandgoal

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primary
adjective
uk
/ˈpraɪ.mər.i/
us
/ˈpraɪ.mer.i/
more important than anything ...
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goal
noun[C]
uk
/ɡəʊl/
us
/ɡoʊl/
an area on a playing field, that usually has two posts with a net fixed behind them, where players try to send the ball in order to score in sports such as football ...
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(Definition ofprimaryandgoalfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofprimary goal

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One of the chief components of a clerical education was just this kind of mastery, since it constituted aprimarygoalof the student's 'apprenticeship'.
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Although theirprimarygoalis not to inform voters, the constraints of electoral competition forces them to behave in ways that are, in themselves, informative.
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The ideas and images they employed were all in furtherance of theirprimarygoal, the end of slavery.
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I will begin with the articles that take theory as theirprimarygoal.
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Itsprimarygoalought to be to foster a forum for the music scene.
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Theprimarygoalof this study is to evaluate the objective response rate of topical ceramides in patients with cutaneous breast cancer.
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But for us, theprimarygoalof modeling is not to reproduce all - or even most - of the known phenomena of generalization or similarity.
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However, we will not follow this because ourprimarygoalhere is to be as elementary as possible.
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Theprimarygoalof that study is to compute the overall function of the mechanism, whereas ours is to compute the purposes of individual components.
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Such activities divert time and effort from theprimarygoalof assessment.
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Theprimarygoalof this paper is to present an abstract procedure containing rules for default, weak and strict negations.
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The fund'sprimarygoalis to support research that produces information on healthcare effectiveness and efficiency.
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From the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s, industrial development was theprimarygoalof national policy.
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Aprimarygoalof on-site equipment for disassembly is avoiding spending energy in transportation for equipment during the staged contraction process.
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The authors'primarygoalis to improve programming ability by improving intuition about what programs mean and how they run.
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Theprimarygoalof many developing states is to maintain social control and pre-empt challenges to the state.
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Theprimarygoalof this paper is an attempt to generalize it to the product of rank-one spaces.
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Oneprimarygoalof this study is to determine the prevalence of surround interactions.
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