major role
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmajorandrole
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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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role
noun[C]
uk/rəʊl/us/roʊl/
the position or purpose that someone or something has in a situation, organization, society, ...
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(Definition ofmajorandrolefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofmajor role
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The case marking and person inflection play amajorrolein the coding of syntactic roles.
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Agricultural statistics play amajorrolein all three.
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The calculus comes equipped with a labelled transition system in which types play amajorrole: this system allows us to show interesting algebraic laws.
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The dust remains present in the atmosphere for long periods of time, and plays amajorrolein global circulation and atmospheric dynamics.
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Atmospheric loss processes have played amajorrolein the evolution and habitability of the terrestrial planet atmospheres in our solar system.
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The study indicates that the intensity-dependent phase of the atomic dipole should play amajorrole in the spatial coherence proper ties of harmonic emission.
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This indicates that infected humans rather than reservoir hosts play amajorrolein the epidemiology of the disease.
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In particular, gathering plays amajorroleonly in villages without rich fish stocks or upland nearby as alternative insurance.
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As to the socio-economic variables, they seem to play amajorrole.
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Extensional tectonics played amajorroleduring the latest stages of exhumation, as shown by collapse folds and brittle shear zones.
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Given the relatively small role for uncertainty, it is unlikely that expectational errors about future earnings play amajorrolein explaining college choices.
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Obviously recent defeats, outrage at domestic political developments and unfavourable international circumstances all played amajorrolein such a cycle of commitment.
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From 1973 to 1994 per capita incomes declined and this economic deterioration played amajorrolein bringing political change.
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Because of the complexity in bird digenean life-cycles we supposed that intermediate hosts and ecological characters of their environment could play amajorrole.
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In his view, during the nineteenth century they played amajorrolein transmitting liberal values back home.
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I do not deny that symbolic and physical violence often play amajorrolein imposing as legitimate dominant schemes of evaluation.
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The data also confirm a widely cited observation that women and children play amajorrolein water collection activities.
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In terms of composition dynamics, expansion of financial intermediation, and education played amajorrolein increasing inequality, whereas occupational transformation contributed to poverty alleviation.
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