supportive role
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsupportiveandrole
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supportive
adjective
uk/səˈpɔː.tɪv/us/səˈpɔːr.t̬ɪv/
showing agreement and ...
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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 ofsupportiveandrolefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It is not purely a product of perceptual processes such as auditory streaming, although streaming may play asupportiverole.
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To respond to changing demand appears to require changes to the professional culture, which might threaten its currentsupportiverole.
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As an intervention strategy to address adolescent problems, there has been significant national interest in thesupportiveroleof mentoring.
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Throughout his writing and in his pictures, one feels the positive, sympathetic andsupportiveroleof this clergyman.
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I interpret these effects on arteriolar diameter as a permissive/supportiverolethat provides neurons with adequate substrates for their increased energy metabolism.
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The participants wanted greater acknowledgment of the contribution older people have made, including their role in bearing the problems of family breakdown and theirsupportiveroleof grandparents as carers.
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The debate during the 1950s to 1980s about community in old age focused on its potentiallysupportiverole, even if the evidence suggested limited and somewhat ambivalent ties with neighbours.
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They have a different and moresupportiverole.
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The register should be sustained for itssupportiveroleto declaration.
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The diplomatic and commercial services can play only asupportiverole.
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We believe that it is appropriate that the federations should be grant-aided by central government because of their representative andsupportiverole.
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In addition, the new improvement and development agency, will provide asupportiverolein assisting authorities in achieving continuous improvement.
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One problem that seems to be identified is the lack of training for those undertaking this counselling of parents and the resultantsupportiverole.
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Clearly, theirsupportiveroleis important and desirable.
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Of course, we all think of the families of the forces and of all those who are involved in this operation in asupportiverole.
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One party—say, the husband—earns money in the market place, and the wife may play asupportiverole, giving advice or organising appointments.
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Enforcement can also be carried out very efficiently in asupportiveroleby air.
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