leading role
collocation in Englishmeaningsofleadingandrole
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leading
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈliː.dɪŋ/us/ˈliː.dɪŋ/
very important or ...
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role
noun[C]
uk/rəʊl/us/roʊl/
the position or purpose that someone or something has in a situation, organization, society, ...
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(Definition ofleadingandrolefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofleading role
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The two partners immediately locked horns over the interpretation of theleadingrole.
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Physician-researchers will be able to play aleadingrolein calling for the creation of and adherence to such global standards for research governance.
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It seems then that the task of according social policy aleadingrolehas to be undertaken from within the discipline.
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These widely shared academic experiences have a number of implications, and they grant the sociological practice of academic environments aleadingrole.
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Social policy (or perhaps better put societal policy) is therefore accorded aleadingroleas one of the media through which governance is effected.
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Experts in neuropsychology and clinical psychology should play aleadingrolein developing the next generation of illness-specific and neural pathway-targeted psychotherapeutic techniques.
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Therefore, orbital traffic and guided highways are gradually playing aleadingrole.
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Itsleadingrolein improving housing standards was largely the result of its political development.
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In short, it grants pre-understanding aleadingrole.
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The most important cause is of course the legally definedleadingroleof the party organization.
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Under such conditions, could the livestock sector convert itself into one that had aleadingrole, at least from the demographic point of view?
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This is the view that in humans the sense of "selfhood" or one's own consciousness plays aleadingrolein storing episodic memories.
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Wives of middle-class professionals played aleadingrole.
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When war started in 1980, the women's organisations took aleadingrolein providing a support network for the victims of violence.
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There are many reasons, the most obvious being the legally definedleadingroleof the party organization.
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Again, the government is expected to play theleadingrole.
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Psychiatric hospitals were not closed but took aleadingrolein the provision of day- and home-treatment.
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Leadingroleof thalamic over cortical neurons during post-inhibitory rebound excitation.
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As stated below, also local public institutions and/or firms' associations and consortia might play aleadingrole.
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