central role
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcentralandrole
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central
adjective
uk/ˈsen.trəl/us/ˈsen.trəl/
in, at, from, or near the centre or most important part ...
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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 ofcentralandrolefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofcentral role
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Consequently, he attributes acentralroleto lemma retrieval in the speech process.
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It is clear that functional properties of objects play acentralrolein adult categorization.
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In the first phase of this dialogue, the history of science did not play acentralrole.
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In fact, it is even more enthusiastic about the ineliminable andcentralroleof models in scientific theorizing.
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Parents play acentralrolein helping children negotiate key developmental stages.
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We have proposed an elicitation procedure in which sensitivity analysis takes acentralrole.
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The ontological, epistemological, and behavioral reasons emphasize thecentralroleof learning in problem solving.
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The possible existence of demonstration effects plays acentralrolein our theory of municipal electoral change.
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In this institutional context, labor unions are still playing acentralrolein the politics of pension reform.
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Because of thecentralroleof oxen in this system, there is a greater integration of livestock breeding with land husbandry.
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Thecentralroleof the state in determining the severity of these sanctions and inflicting them requires justification.
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Therefore, they neglect the dynamic of production of small firms, which could well play acentralrole in explaining sectoral economic activity in manufacturing.
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Today, state-based standards on the one hand, and quasi-private governance structures on the other, play acentralrolelargely decoupling agrarian politics and capitalist markets.
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From celestial mechanics to the quantum theory of fields, it has always played acentralrole, which this little note sets out to analyse briefly.
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This is characterized by thecentralroleof the family farm, the largely kinship-based mode of production and a general focus on one's own village.
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Yet service providers are expected in practice to play acentralrolein the identification and management of social isolation.
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The work goes a long way towards offering a fully integrated view of thecentralrolegender has had in modern architectural movements.
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