primary interest
collocation in Englishmeaningsofprimaryandinterest
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primary
adjective
uk/ˈpraɪ.mər.i/us/ˈpraɪ.mer.i/
more important than anything ...
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interest
noun
uk/ˈɪn.trəst/us/ˈɪn.trɪst/
the feeling of wanting to give your attention to something or of wanting to be involved with and to discover more ...
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(Definition ofprimaryandinterestfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This yields an explanation of net behaviours in which causality is theprimaryinterest.
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Here, the strategies used are ofprimaryinterest, whereas the basis on which particular strategies are chosen is less critical.
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In this context, ourprimaryinterestis in the nature of changes in the time-budgets of employed women and men.
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Since the present study focuses on morphologically complex, multiple-unit characters, semantic radicals are ofprimaryinterest.
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The projection of these elements is minimized so that the harmony becomes theprimaryinterest.
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The comparison ofprimaryinteresthere is how the two groups differed in their judgments of the ungrammatical constructions.
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Theprimaryinterestof the exponents of the qualitative paradigm is meaningful social interaction in relatively local, self-designating communities.
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With ready access to concentrated chemical fertilizers in non-organic farming, disposal became theprimaryinterestin land application of organic waste materials.
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It is important to note that ourprimaryinteresthere is in comparing the level of cross-party voting within each year.
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To focus on the sectors of ourprimaryinterestand to reduce the involved workload, an aggregation of other sectors was made.
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Institutions and organizations are ofprimaryinterestin economics and management sciences.
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Although the impacts are multi-faceted and complex to decompose, ourprimaryinterestis the impact on pesticide use.
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Figures 3 and 4 illustrate the effects of the independent variables ofprimaryinterest: temperament and maternal parenting.
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Two comparisons across demographic groups are ofprimaryinterest.
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Ofprimaryinterestwas the behavioral and physiological responses of these children to two empathy-eliciting situations.
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Four comparisons are ofprimaryinterest.
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The studies, however, are carried out by political scientists with aprimaryinterestin economics or employment.
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Ofprimaryinterestare the direct paths to the latent variable of child vocabulary competence and its effect indicators.
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