main pillar

collocation in English

meaningsofmainandpillar

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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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pillar
noun[C]
uk
/ˈpɪl.ər/us
/ˈpɪl.ɚ/
a strong column made of stone, metal, or wood that supports part of ...
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(Definition ofmainandpillarfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The new conditions were criticised as harmful to children and to what these parties regarded as themainpillarof society, the family.
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In most of these countries, themainpillarcontinues to be a single pay-as-you-go scheme.
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Everyone will agree that that industry will form themainpillarof our post-war agricultural structure.
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Themainpillarof these measures must be to guarantee security and victory in the fight against rebel forces.
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Yes, we will obtain more power in themainpillar.
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The other stories would be built over the completed one, and on top of themainpillarwould at last be inserted the finial.
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Ideally themainpillarshould be a round number (e.g. 5 depa) but the actual measurement usually contains a fraction (e.g. five and two-tenths depa).
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Once the site has been chosen, a hole is dug in the ground for the house'smainpillar.
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He saw them take off their wings, stole one pair, and hid them at the foot of themainpillarof his house.
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Themainpillarof the economy was production of and trade in cloth on which about 15% of the population depended.
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Themainpillarof my house has fallen, he wrote to a friend.
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The party lost amainpillarof support and was shaken by internal crisis.
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Themainpillaris located on a triangular base.
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And one of the main pillars of this new culture, it was soon realized, was a universal language.
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Most of the players are between the age of 8 and 18, as themainpillarof the team is the youth development and promotion of home-grown players.
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One of the main pillars of the capitalist developmental state would, therefore, seem to rest on shaky empirical grounds.
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Second, if it is found that this initial elite cooperation was present, we can move on to test whether all four of the main pillars of consociational democracy were present.
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It rests on two main pillars—research and export performance.
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