primary motive
collocation in Englishmeaningsofprimaryandmotive
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primary
adjective
uk/ˈpraɪ.mər.i/us/ˈpraɪ.mer.i/
more important than anything ...
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motive
noun[C]
uk/ˈməʊ.tɪv/us/ˈmoʊ.t̬ɪv/
a reason for ...
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(Definition ofprimaryandmotivefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Farmersprimarymotiveto adopt mulching is recognition that sloughing carries the risk of a permanent loss of cropland function.
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Theprimarymotiveis not the usual commercial one but rather social - a bid for animation.
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In any case, theprimarymotivefor their involvement in nationalist politics was the desire for more land.
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Our survey found that most villagers (67.7 per cent) regarded voting as their right or responsibility and nominated it as theirprimarymotivefor voting.
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For the majority of workers who left arsenals for other industrial jobs, aprimarymotivewas the promise of higher wages.
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If we limit this to occasional care (as opposed to ongoing treatment and rehabilitation), chemotherapy was theprimarymotivefor patient management, representing 40% of home care (12).
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Each motive is either a copy of aprimarymotive, a variation upon aprimarymotive, a copy of a previous motive, or a variation upon a previous motive.
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As the first three propositions in the catechism make clear, he postulates a universal human desire for social relationships and takes this to be theprimarymotivefor social cooperation.
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Similarly, national programs may on occasion use commercial services for the transport of personnel, who cannot thereby be regarded as tourists because tourism is not theirprimarymotive.
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It would be nice to think that that was theirprimarymotive.
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What is wrong is going for mass-audience programmes, particularly at peak hours, as one's sole andprimarymotive.
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Theprimarymotiveis now the promotion of a peaceful and lasting settlement.
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That was the first andprimarymotivefor interfering.
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These are offences, theprimarymotiveof which was economic gain.
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It expresses the idea of an economic system in which theprimarymotiveis private gain.
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Theprimarymotiveof much organised crime is financial crime.
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The first is the speculator, who chooses to borrow and whoseprimarymotivein so doing is simply to play the money market.
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Theprimarymotiveis to make a profit.
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We should all recall that theprimarymotiveof organised crime is financial gain.
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