principal architect

collocation in English

meaningsofprincipalandarchitect

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principal
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/us
/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/
first in order ...
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architect
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɑː.kɪ.tekt/us
/ˈɑːr.kə.tekt/
a person whose job is to design new buildings and make certain that they are ...
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(Definition ofprincipalandarchitectfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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He was theprincipalarchitectnot only of the wages councils but of the joint industrial councils for this industry.
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I think he was theprincipalarchitectof this scheme of land values.
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I wonder whether in the future he will have the same confidence in the arrangements of which he wasprincipalarchitectand which until recently he defended with such vigour.
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As aprincipalarchitectof chemical biology, he has influenced the public and private research communities.
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Wyatt was now theprincipalarchitectof the day, the recipient of more commissions than he could well fulfil.
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What he did not say was that it was his man who was one of the principal architects of the process.
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Democratically mandated parties committed to peaceful methods will be its principal architects.
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What they do not say, with an appropriate degree of modesty, is that they have been the principal architects and cause of the recession itself.
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Here the aim is to select buildings of definite quality and character, paying special attention to the main works of the principal architects.
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I thought that he was one of the principal architects of the deterrent.
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He is known within academic philosophy as one of the principal architects of the view known as vehicle externalism, or the extended mind.
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