major objective
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmajorandobjective
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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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objective
noun[C]
uk/əbˈdʒek.tɪv/us/əbˈdʒek.tɪv/
something that you plan to do ...
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(Definition ofmajorandobjectivefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Themajorobjectivewas to reduce the waiting times and increase the efficiency of the hospital.
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A third andmajorobjectivewas to develop a more time-efficient scale that would be of great practical value in clinical settings.
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Themajorobjectivein designing the teleoperation control system is to achieve transparency provided that the system is stable.
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Amajorobjectivein solar system exploration will be the insertion of appropriate biology-oriented experiments.
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Acquiring a new headquarters building seems to be amajorobjectiveof government ministries, their departments, and the various bodies that they support.
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Amajorobjectivein current animal breeding strategies is therefore to improve animal health, but this is difficult to achieve by traditional breeding methods.
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Amajorobjectiveof government policy since the mid-1980s has been to limit entry to residential and nursing homes.
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These fluctuations are interpreted on the basis that amajorobjectiveof households is to equalize their income across different stages of their development.
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Amajorobjectivehas been to trace important continuities in indigenous dynamics and networks from the pre-colonial period onwards.
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Conducting such comparative analyses constituted themajorobjectiveof this investigation.
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Testing these hypotheses was themajorobjectiveof the monolingual - bilingual comparison.
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In this context, the recovery of the recipient parent genome is amajorobjectiveof backcrossing.
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From the outset on immunological studies of nematodes, amajorobjectivehas been the development of a protective immunity stimulating vaccine.
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Themajorobjectiveof this paper is to characterize model sets in terms of the properties of their local hulls.
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Themajorobjectiveof this article is to summarize this evidence in a systematic and revisable manner.
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Themajorobjectiveof these authors is to find an integrative model of conscious experience in which distinct cognitive states may be quantified and tracked down to specific neurobiological events.
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I have analysed these fluctuations on the basis that amajorobjectiveof households is to equalize their income across the different stages of their development.
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