complementary role

collocation in English

meaningsofcomplementaryandrole

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complementary
adjective
uk
/ˌkɒm.plɪˈmen.tər.i/us
/ˌkɑːm.pləˈmen.t̬ɚ.i/
useful or ...
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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 ofcomplementaryandrolefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcomplementary role

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Instead, it required that the groups play acomplementaryrolein the development of nationalism.
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Striatal neurons located in each of these distinct functional territories play acomplementaryrolein respect to motor behavior.
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Thus, positive and negative explanations play acomplementaryrolein accounting for an observation in nonmonotonic theories.
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Acomplementaryrolein the wider world of everimproving commercial facilities, and in the electroacoustic community at large.
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The subject-teaching associations have had acomplementaryrole.
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Since miracles serve to confirm heroic virtues, they play, from the strictly juridical point of view, only acomplementaryrole.
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Overall, this study's findings thus support a "hybrid" model whereby both personal dispositions and peer experiences play an additive andcomplementaryrole.
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The voters play thecomplementaryrolein this dialogue.
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The learning part plays acomplementaryrolein the overall control algorithm.
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Muscle activity at the subordinate joint seems to play acomplementaryroleto the interactive torque, correcting the passive movement of the subordinate joint in accordance with the task.
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With the growing availability of these closely substitutable cessation methods, smoking relapse prevention increasingly assumes thecomplementaryroleof extending the period of abstinence initiated by other means.
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The distinctive design of the ombudsman, particularly its lack of coercive authority, underlines thecomplementaryroleit is conceived to perform within a network of horizontal accountability institutions.
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Thiscomplementaryroleof regionalism and multilateralism is further strengthened by the role of regionalist policies in achieving power balances across countries in the negotiation process.
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It could play an important and valuablecomplementaryrolein relation to the main negotiating process.
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There may be differences of opinion about hostile bids, but the banks themselves play a mutual orcomplementaryrolebetween industry and the banking system.
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We shall be unable to avoid specific regulation in the end, but it should play acomplementaryrole.
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Acomplementaryroleensures that the accountability of our present system, with the party in government being answerable to the electors, remains intact.
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As wives, thecomplementaryroleof men and women implies the need for cooperation in professional life, in social life and in family life.
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He is right about thecomplementaryrolethat community pharmacies play in the delivery of primary health care.
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They are prepared to act in acomplementaryroleto the local authorities, but not on their own.
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