main plank

collocation in English

meaningsofmainandplank

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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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plank
noun[C]
uk
/plæŋk/us
/plæŋk/
a long, narrow, flat piece of wood or similar material, of the type used for ...
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(Definition ofmainandplankfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmain plank

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Themainplankof these reforms was to legitimise and to introduce the demotic language into schools.
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Mymainplankwas that there should be basic amenities like a sewerage system.
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Seldom has the passage of time so swiftly, effectively and comprehensively destroyed the intellectual foundations of themainplankof a party's defence policy.
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I do not argue that that should be themainplankof our traffic reduction strategy.
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It is this with which themainplankof our policy is concerned.
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Themainplankof my argument is a minimum wage for industrial workers.
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Themainplankin our strategy must be to agree to the utilisation of and the reliance upon our abundant indigenous supplies of coal.
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Themainplankof the prevention strategy is education.
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That is a complete abandonment of themainplankof his argument.
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Themainplankin the programme for regenerating the economy is putting some sense back into industrial relations.
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What an incredible display of confidence they have in themainplankof their policy!
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Themainplankis an increase of stock and growing our own feed.
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He seems to be saying that he is prepared to go along with seeking cross-community support as themainplankof acceptability.
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How can they be serious when themainplankin their policy is the sale of council houses?
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It was for no other reason than to hide the complete inadequacies of themainplankof what those councils were proposing to do.
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If they did that, themainplankof our argument would be taken away from us.
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If we take away the workings of those institutions, do we not substantially leave them with themainplankof their argument?
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Section 22, which is themainplankof the matter, refers to the sale of salmon and trout.
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It was themainplankof their election campaign.
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I am quite sure that themainplankto reducing surpluses must be the price mechanism.
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