major goal
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmajorandgoal
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major
adjective
uk/ˈmeɪ.dʒər/us/ˈmeɪ.dʒɚ/
more important, bigger, or more serious than others of the ...
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goal
noun[C]
uk/ɡəʊl/us/ɡoʊl/
an area on a playing field, that usually has two posts with a net fixed behind them, where players try to send the ball in order to score in sports such as football ...
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(Definition ofmajorandgoalfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Reevaluating communicative competence as amajorgoalin postsecondary language requirement courses.
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Ecological sustainability is amajorgoalof two-fifths of both non-organic and organic farmers in the study.
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This is equivalent to assuming that amajorgoalof motor coordination is the production of the smoothest possible movement of the hand.
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The investigation of effects of childhood maltreatment was not amajorgoalof this 20-year study.
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Understanding these putative systems in human beings has been amajorgoalof cognitive science.
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The mechanisation of equivalence-checking in the spi-calculus represents amajorgoalfor our current and future work.
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Thus, amajorgoalof our first season was to carefully map and draw all the extant fragments we could find at the site.
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I take it that amajorgoalof their target article is to stimulate work on both of these.
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Amajorgoalof previous research has been to define the stability boundaries in a relevant parameter space.
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Amajorgoalfor future research is therefore to discover how they are combined.
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Amajorgoalof the course is helping students evaluate engineering as a career option.
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To meet this target is ourmajorgoalfor the coming year.
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Researchers in robotics and automation will recognise that the ability to deal with complexity is becoming amajorgoalin many endeavours.
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Themajorgoalof the study is to carr y out such a test.
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Amajorgoalin any interaction is to understand one's partner, and morphosyntax can be relatively unimportant in the goal of understanding.
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Themajorgoalof this study was to examine the association between fathers' alcoholism and parent - infant attachment.
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Amajorgoalwas to test the adequacy of the traditional computational account and that of cue based and connectionist accounts.
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Our nextmajorgoalwill be to prove that x is an isomorphism.
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Discovering this representation format was to be amajorgoalfor linguistic research.
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Amajorgoalof urban regime theory and the growth machine thesis, then, is to put the politics back into urban political economy.
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