principal means
collocation in Englishmeaningsofprincipalandmean
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principal
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/us/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/
first in order ...
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mean
noun[S]
uk/miːn/us/miːn/
mathematicsspecialized
the result you get by adding two or more amounts together and dividing the total by the number ...
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The perception of sons and husbands as the principal means of security emphasises the continuing traditional patriarchal form of society in developing countries.
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There are two principal means of voice identification, the ear or a machine.
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Changes in teaching style - for example the introduction of lectures as a principal means of teaching - also clearly affect students' transition to higher education.
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These six categories were the principal means through which the inexperienced listeners appreciated the types of work represented in this study.
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Language, or rather its form as text, has become the principal means of expressing and articulating power.
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Dietary modification and pharmacological therapy are the principal means employed to control maternal hyperglycemia.
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Viewed from these perspectives, it may be seen as a principal means through which one comes to know music.
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These tests provided the principal means at that time for screening wheat lines under selection in a preliminary assessment of bread-making quality.
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It was also common in radio drama, and then in turn became a principal means of providing music for television.
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In democracies, elections are the principal means by which citizens may hold government officials accountable for their performance.
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Despite these widely acknowledged shortcomings, it continues to provide the principal means by which scholars distinguish systems of social provision.
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This puts greater emphasis on the circulation of music commodities as the principal means of maintaining the scene (see above).
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However, for retrieval using short captions, the evaluation data is rather limited, and we therefore constructed our own test set as the principal means of evaluation.
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Mobutu was able to retain his grip through two principal means : his control of money and his control of force.
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These camps, which are frequently patrilineal, are the principal means through which high-level business and political contacts and friendships are formed.
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