vital role

collocation in English

meaningsofvitalandrole

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vital
adjective
uk
/ˈvaɪ.təl/
us
/ˈvaɪ.t̬əl/
necessary for the success or continued existence of something; ...
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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 ofvitalandrolefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofvital role

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In this expedient the introductions have avitalroleto play.
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A health promotion coordinator can play avitalrolein educating/supporting staff, driving organizational initiatives and liaising with community agencies.
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Farmers' markets play avitalrolein enabling small-scale farmers to gain direct access to customers.
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In this respect, consultants have avitalrolein representing trustees' best interests at the nexus of contracts.
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Therefore, the tree size at maturity may play avitalrolein determining the morphology of the diaspores.
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Student teachers begin to recognise thevitalroleof sociodramatic play in the development of emergent literacy.
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Despite itsvitalrole, radiocarbon dating has a number of weaknesses, both inherent within the technique and also specific to the region.
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And while comets may have played avitalrolein the origin of life, conversely they may also have been inimical to its development.
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They are known to play avitalrolein the overall development of the flow and are largely responsible for entrainment and mixing.
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Our research focuses on how best to present thevitalroleof water in astrobiology to the general public.
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Such a top down conclusion would ignore thevitalroleof litigants in the production of knowledge.
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Pronunciation, then, plays avitalrolein successful communication both productively and receptively.
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The move from the clinical tradition to therapeutic modernity thus plays avitalrolein our work.
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Moreover, they all point to avitalrolefor crop physiology in this task.
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The hospital played avitalrolein this process.
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Families (famirii) play avitalrolein the hip-hop community.
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We simply allow interleaving of atomic actions, whose atomicity plays avitalrolein the system.
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