major issue

collocation in English

meaningsofmajorandissue

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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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issue
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɪʃ.uː/us
/ˈɪʃ.uː/
a subject or problem that people are thinking and ...
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(Definition ofmajorandissuefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmajor issue

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From 1967, compulsion again became amajorissue.
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Before we go further and analyse the relationship between the state and the shopkeepers, the othermajorissuehas to be dealt with.
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Not only is the book well researched, but the analysis which the author brings to nearly everymajorissueand sub-issue is penetrating.
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European integration has emerged as amajorissuefor national political parties.
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Amajorissuein the biomass transfer system is the amount and cost of labour.
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For example, amajorissuewithin sociolinguistics is the process involved in the social and historical nature of linguistic change.
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Rights have become amajorissuetoday for composers and authors.
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After all, we don't have the ultimate truths on anymajorissue.
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Surely, this will be onemajorissuethe twentieth century bequeaths to the twenty-first.
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The data were transcribed manually and contain numerous errors, so quality control of the dataset has been amajorissue.
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Onemajorissueis that of calibration of different components of the robot/camera system.
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The absence of a partner seems to be themajorissue.
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Themajorissuewas not to win converts but to stem leakage.
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Political accountability is amajorissueof importance.
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This cancer site was selected because it is a complex planning case where the learning curve is, therefore, amajorissue.
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Amajorissuewithin this debate has to do with how easy it is for children to learn nouns versus verbs.
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Moreover, model flexibility for human-machine interaction is amajorissue.
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This "disconnect" between research- and clinicbased therapy is amajorissuefor the field.
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The secondmajorissuethat the crude measurement of prescribing rates ignores is the patient's perspective on the selection and effectiveness of treatment.
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