major source
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmajorandsource
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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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source
noun[C]
uk/sɔːs/us/sɔːrs/
the place something comes from or starts at, or the cause ...
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(Definition ofmajorandsourcefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The regular payments by the peasants constituted amajorsourceof income for these institutions.
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That reputation also attracts students, who are not infrequently amajorsourceof income for the teacher.
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They are usually accompanied by relatively low pressure at their centres, and are amajorsourceof momentum transport towards the walls.
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In agreement with previous studies there is no doubt that non-shared environmental factors are themajorsourceof variance in depressive symptoms in elderly populations.
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On the other hand, low-level preprocessing leads to non-dependents appearing among the candidate complements and adjuncts, and constituting amajorsourceof noise.
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The possession of an accurate internal model of the world is amajorsourceof confidence and self-esteem.
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Amajorsourceof errors remained the calculation of the offset of independent collimators in asymmetric fields.
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Although most of the smelter emissions are deposited close by, they still represent amajorsourceof circumpolar contamination.
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Domestic cats are amajorsourceof potential human exposures to rabies.
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Ammonium was themajorsourceof mineral nitrogen, and glutamine was the most abundant free amino acid.
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The industry also had a reasonable complaint in regard to the specification of entertainment premises constituting themajorsourceof concern regarding fire safety.
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Another predictable axis would be proximity to amajorsource.
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Theirmajorsourceof information in this process is the other words with which the noun is associated and which mark gender unambiguously.
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Furthermore, by focusing on private companies, it left out the government-owned thermal power plants, which are amajorsourceof pollution.
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This was also amajorsourceof land for the settlers.
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