main priority
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmainandpriority
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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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priority
noun[C or U]
uk/praɪˈɒr.ə.ti/us/praɪˈɔːr.ə.t̬i/
something that is very important and must be dealt with before ...
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(Definition ofmainandpriorityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Historically, service users have been themainpriorityfor social services departments.
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Itsmainprioritywas to carry out a rapid administrative and economic integration of the newly acquired region.
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Themainpriorityis regulatory decentralization at the regional and hospital levels.
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Building market economies was evidently themainpriorityof the international lending institutions, and one that overrode other considerations such as less corrupt and better public governance.
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Above all, it must establish as itsmainpriorityletting on the basis of housing needs alone.
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Although we may disagree on certain aspects of philosophy or policy they, like us, know that unemployment is ourmainpriority.
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Ourmainprioritymust be to give positive help to agriculture.
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Without doubt, themainpriorityfor widening participation must be action in schools.
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As for local authority services, we have decided to give themainpriorityto education.
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Ourmainpriorityis to provide high quality health care which is easily accessible to local communities.
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Themainpriorityis to have a new university in the region.
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We have certainly tried to make that themainpriorityfor our programme of work.
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Themainpriorityis to ensure that farmers and other owners continue to maintain them voluntarily.
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It is clearly designed to make fighting inflation themainpriority, and that must be right.
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I therefore welcome my noble friend's indication that energy efficiency will be themainpriorityof government policy.
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Themainpriorityat present must be to safeguard as far as possible the interests of investors.
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Itsmainpriorityis to help people faced with particular difficulties in the labour market move from welfare and economic inactivity into sustainable employment.
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Themainpriorityis the movement of goods in that country by road, rail and boat.
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Human rights are and must be themainpriority, but they cannot be the only one.
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As far as we are concerned, this is not themainpriority; we already have comparable data from other countries.
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