main objective
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmainandobjective
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main
adjective[before noun]
uk/meɪn/us/meɪn/
larger, more important, or having more influence than others of the ...
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objective
noun[C]
uk/əbˈdʒek.tɪv/us/əbˈdʒek.tɪv/
something that you plan to do ...
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(Definition ofmainandobjectivefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Themainobjectiveof a forest plantation is to produce large volumes of commercial timber cheaply and rapidly.
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Themainobjectiveof this study is to examine the linguistic changes that have occurred in four decades and the causal factors of these changes.
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Themainobjectiveof the experiment reported in this paper was to investigate loss of long-term memory ability in normal and cognitively impaired elderly subjects.
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Nor, perhaps, should we try, since themainobjectiveof this paper is to make a moral - not a metaphysical - defence of multiple-lives schemes.
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Sometimes he wrote as if themainobjectivewas to distill the wisdom of successful directors.
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Ourmainobjectiveis to construct conjugacies, as explicitly as possible, between linear and nonlinear dynamics.
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Themainobjectiveof this publication is to amalgamate much of the existing information on vegetable production and postharvest technology.
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As far as the range finder is concerned, themainobjectiveis the improvement of the spatial resolution of the depth image.
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Generally, themainobjectiveof wildlife management has therefore been, and still is, protection of wild animals and natural habitats.
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Themainobjectiveof ontology development is to develop a standard vocabulary or to predefine terminology to facilitate exchange of information.
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Themainobjectiveof the following experiment was to examine whether people are aware of potential statistical constraints that they do not produce when spelling.
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Since ourmainobjectiveis to understand how the age groups differ from each other, we consider the interaction effect the most interesting.
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To finish, preferences are considered as secondary objectives and should be sought when themainobjectiveis achieved.
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Themainobjectiveof a scheduling strategy is to balance the amount of parallel work done by different agents.
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Ourmainobjectivewill therefore be to show that certain such limits must indeed be constant.
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The measurement of this cost of sustainable industrial development is themainobjectiveof this paper.
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Themainobjectiveof this study was to examine the nature of the subsyllabic sound - spelling correspondences that people produce and are aware of.
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Themainobjectiveof our study was to determine the causes and potential avoidability of readmissions.
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