secondary purpose
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsecondaryandpurpose
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secondary
adjective
uk/ˈsek.ən.dri/us/ˈsek.ən.der.i/
less important than ...
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purpose
noun
uk/ˈpɜː.pəs/us/ˈpɝː.pəs/
why you do something or why ...
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(Definition ofsecondaryandpurposefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Asecondarypurposeof this paper was to review evidence for bilinguals' use of gestures across languages.
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Asecondarypurposeof this paper is to review results from the few studies exploring the issue of cross-linguistic transfer of bilinguals' gestures.
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Itssecondarypurposewas to get suffragettes into prison.
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The provision to transfer objects between collections is asecondarypurposeto which the schedule has been put.
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But itssecondarypurposeis to protect the taxpayer.
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Its primary purpose 13 consolidation and itssecondarypurposeis to make the consolidation effective by minor alterations in the law.
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That is the principal purpose of new clause 2, but it also serves asecondarypurpose.
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It does, incidentally, fulfil asecondarypurposeof enabling fire authorities to secure information to help them in fire fighting.
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The conserving of marine flora and fauna, which was previously asecondarypurpose, has now been made the primary purpose.
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In the broad environmental context, thesecondarypurposeof road charging is to deal with physical problems in local areas.
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Suchsecondarypurpose; will be acceptable only after all the local housing need has been met.
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The main purpose is to prevent the spread and the coalescence of towns, and thesecondarypurposeis to provide opportunities for recreation.
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It is perfectly obvious that in that case it would be nonsense to refer to that purpose as asecondarypurpose.
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But it has asecondarypurpose—to assist those people who have suffered owing to the floods.
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Thesecondarypurpose, which is also very important, is that we should have some idea of the sort of suggestions that will be made.
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That is thesecondarypurpose, but the first is to see whether the law is being broken.
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That takes us back to thesecondarypurposeargument.
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What is thesecondarypurpose?
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Asecondarypurpose—the social purpose of sport—is to enable sport to make its enormous contribution to the good health and personal relationships that are so necessary in our community life.
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Thesecondarypurposeis to automatically generate source code from the model.
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