core function

collocation in English

meaningsofcoreandfunction

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core
adjective
uk
/kɔːr/us
/kɔːr/
most important or ...
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function
noun
uk
/ˈfʌŋk.ʃən/us
/ˈfʌŋk.ʃən/
the natural purpose (of something) or the duty (of ...
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(Definition ofcoreandfunctionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcore function

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Is that acorefunction?
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The control of female sexuality and the restraint of desire would seem to be thecorefunctionof modest clothing.
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It is not acorefunctionof that trust.
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Careers provision will be acorefunctionof the service.
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It is theircorefunctionto scrutinise local authority services.
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As he rightly said, that is ourcorefunction.
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Theircorefunctionis to make a profit by producing food that customers want to buy.
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However, thecorefunctionof the authority is acknowledged to be purchasing and contracting.
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Yet we are told that thecorefunctionof the mounted branch is to be mainly public order.
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It limits acorefunctionof the web.
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It is acorefunctionand fundamental component of computers.
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Patients' councils would preserve the existing structures for patient representation and advocacy, except that independent advocacy would become a newcorefunction.
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That is thecorefunctionof the justices' clerk and that function must be protected from any kind of direction to the justices' clerk.
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Data storage is acorefunctionand fundamental component of computers.
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The creation of propaganda has been described as the collectives'corefunction.
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In order to do this, the system has the priorities as itscorefunction.
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Acorefunctionis the registering of scripts to verify original authorship.
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The focus is to maintain the assetscorefunctionand ward off harm.
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Thecorefunctionof the stereocilia is to resorb 90% of this fluid as the spermatozoa start to become motile.
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A departure to other products is that eachcorefunctionwas designed to work in conjunction with each other.
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Thecorefunctionof a switch is to allow each workstation to communicate only with the switch instead of with each other.
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The result of these design decisions is a reduction in code size and complexity of the daemon program that provides thecorefunctionof answering lookup requests.
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Even during the workhouse era thecorefunctionwas to tend and care for the sick and infirm, since ill-health and infirmity was the main cause of pauperism.
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