combat role

collocation in English

meaningsofcombatandrole

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combat
noun
uk
/ˈkɒm.bæt/us
/ˈkɑːm.bæt/
a fight, especially during ...
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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 ofcombatandrolefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcombat role

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That is a problem, in that his specific battle list is used to make the crucial case that sepoys were kept in a secondarycombatrole.
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Such an aircraft would be geared primarily to the air-to-aircombatrole, although it must also have a good ground attack capability.
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Unless we—all nations—are prepared to deploy ground troops in acombatrole, perhaps we should not embark on too much bluster.
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Theircombatrole, however, is the most important of all.
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They can be far more readily controlled, politically as well as militarily, than involvement by ground forces in acombatrole.
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There are problems in recruiting females in acombatrole.
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I do not think that in future one should exclude even acombatrole.
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We used to have thatcombatrole, and we can have it again.
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I freely agree that there can in any case be no question of troops going in from outside in acombatrole.
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For the duration of the combat phase, operational security considerations will govern the availability of both telephones and e-mail facilities to troops in acombatrole.
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They could be restored to acombatroleif some prisoners of war were traded to the other side.
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Most players will find themselves in a specializedcombatrolewith support.
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The ship was repaired and resumed itscombatrolethree weeks later.
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This would enable them to be returned to acombatroleas an exchange for the newly freed prisoners of war.
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Later that year, he cited boredom when he requested to be moved back into acombatrole.
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Another intendedcombatrolewas to provide high-altitude, high-speed stand-off, side-looking, radar and photo imagery and signals intelligence, reconnaissance.
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However, it was discovered that he was being misleading about his military service, serving in intelligence and not acombatrole.
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