lesser role
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflesserandrole
These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or,see other collocations withrole.
lesser
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈles.ər/us/ˈles.ɚ/
used to describe something that is not as great in size, amount, or importance as ...
See more atlesser
role
noun[C]
uk/rəʊl/us/roʊl/
the position or purpose that someone or something has in a situation, organization, society, ...
See more atrole
(Definition oflesserandrolefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoflesser role
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
The current findings suggest that neighborhood density may play alesserrolewhen learning high frequency or long words.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Interestingly, intrinsic factors played alesserrolein determining prevalence and abundance of infection.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Do glia play a greater orlesserrolein actual information processing, for example in controlling the release of modulators?
From theCambridge English Corpus
These differences were statistically significant, supporting a hypothesis oflesserroleinvestment with greater lineage distance.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Some scholars advocate an even greater role for family and alesserrolefor the individual and for the state in healthcare decisionmaking.
From theCambridge English Corpus
A subjunct has alesserrolethan other sentence elements (pp. 612-613).
From theCambridge English Corpus
An argument that implies alesserrolefor the impact of the village size on the product market (with respect to its impact on the labor market) is the following.
From theCambridge English Corpus
These, concede the religious economies scholars, play a part but - and this is clearly very difficult to substantiate - it is a comparativelylesserrolethan the supplyside forces.
From theCambridge English Corpus
America, on the other hand, is a two party system, in which ideology plays alesserrole.
From theCambridge English Corpus
This does not mean that voluntary organisations have alesserroleto play.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
They might need to fulfil alesserrole.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
I am not trying to make a case that either government played a greater orlesserrole.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
That has alesserrolein the new towns than in the older cities.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
There are maintained homes, controlled homes and assisted homes, in all of which the local authority plays a greater orlesserrole.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
We have already experimented with the formulas of alesserrolefor the state and the blind belief that the rules of competition or liberalisation generate employment.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
All those tiers will have a greater orlesserrolein planning, and all of them will interfere, which is a natural local government tendency, to justify their existence.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
It has alesserrole.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Rationality unfortunately plays a farlesserrole.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Additionally, human self-reports show that drug-associated stimuli play alesserrolein craving in humans than in the laboratory models.
From
Wikipedia
The channel will contain no hosts or anchors and live reporting will play alesserrolewith the channel.
From
Wikipedia
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
Want to learn more?
Go to the definition oflesser
Go to the definition ofrole
See other collocations withrole