principal player

collocation in English

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principal
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/us
/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/
first in order ...
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player
noun[C]
uk
/ˈpleɪ.ər/us
/ˈpleɪ.ɚ/
someone who takes part in a game ...
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(Definition ofprincipalandplayerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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He is listed in the cast of nearly sixty films, but rarely as theprincipalplayer.
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Principal players therefore adopted, or were ascribed, views perceived as popular without regard to any ideological coherence.
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Patent theatres marketed principal players as 'knowable' individuals: as today, star production simulated an intimacy, on stage and in print, between actor and devotee.
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The principal players are the medica officers of health, environmental health officers and meat inspectors.
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I have dealt with the issue of transfers on educational grounds and delivery by the principal players.
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Secondly, the report gives in clear and encapsulated form the views of the principal players, past and present, in this field: administrators, academics and industrialists.
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The director general will in effect act as a long stop rather than as one of the principal players.
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It should be set against the background of the four principal players in the whole inquiry.
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As a third party, we should be wary of coming between the two principal players, but we should also look for ways to facilitate dialogue.
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If one thinks of the situation in those terms, one begins to see who the principal players are and how we should seek to support them.
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We claim that we are a just society, but in a major investigation—probably one of the biggest this century—some of the principal players were not allowed to give oral evidence.
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Private consultation between one of the principal players and the referee— to put it in sporting terms—is infuriating to the other players and it ought to be stopped.
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Principal players always sit closest to the audience.
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Principal players of the orchestra also perform the majority of the concertos, other solos, and chamber music the ballet performs to.
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Half of the orchestra consists of students, while the principal players and many section players are area professionals.
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The principal players include the shareholders, management, and the board of directors.
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In this game, two persons wave their hands simultaneously, while a crowd of surrounding gamblers guess, in chorus, at the total number of fingers exposed by the principal players.
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