subservient role
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsubservientandrole
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subservient
adjective
uk/səbˈsɜː.vi.ənt/us/səbˈsɝː.vi.ənt/
willing to do what other people want, or considering your wishes as less important than those of ...
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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 ofsubservientandrolefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofsubservient role
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By enacting thesubservientrolewith the required deferential manners they could to an extent assert their interests.
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If her commitment to the properlysubservientroleof women is deep enough, recognizing the conflict might just lead her to reject a pleasant life.
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Unfortunately, these healthier, pleasanter lives are lives that do not fit with her sense of the properlysubservientroleof women.
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Similarly, one might argue that while asubservientrolefor women may have been appropriate in earlier times, it is no longer appropriate now.
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My commentary provides some balance to that position by arguing that stored social knowledge dominates our behavior and controls emotional states, thereby reducing emotions to asubservientrolein behavior.
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This report also highlights the discriminatory system which, from the earliest age, forces women into a marginalised andsubservientrole.
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In practice, the major powers are gradually imposing their control, with the other governments playing asubservientrole.
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He refused to play such asubservientrolewhen teaching his students.
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Moore is credited with doing much to raise the status of accompanist from asubservientroleto that of an equal artistic partner.
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On the one hand they were clearly placed in segregated and subservient roles relative to men.
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Deputy head boy: the deputy head boy has similar responsibilities to the head boy, the only difference being hissubservientrolein the head boy's presence.
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Furthermore, the patriarchy has been successful in claiming these domestic values for women and using it as a way to keep women in subservient roles.
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Good has been critical of how women in radio, she says, continue to play subservient roles to men.
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