secondary role
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsecondaryandrole
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secondary
adjective
uk/ˈsek.ən.dri/us/ˈsek.ən.der.i/
less important than ...
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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 ofsecondaryandrolefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofsecondary role
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The assumption that the physical factors are primary, and that there is only asecondaryrolefor social factors is no longer acceptable.
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However, it has been considered to play asecondaryrolein arid environments.
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Ideological factors or geopolitical circumstances played asecondaryrole.
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Could you expand upon these subjects and could you indicate why change as such plays asecondaryrolein your explanatory schemes?
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Instead, the state takes on thesecondaryroleof facilitating development, which includes making the (legal) rules required for the operation of the market.
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However, the small content of phosphorus indicates only asecondaryrolefor this phase.
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Seasonal effects had asecondaryrolein structuring the seed bank.
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They play asecondaryrolein determining the bifurcation points of the system (35), (36).
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It is also shown that the next transitions are mainly temporal transitions, the azimuthally dependent part of the flow playing only asecondaryrole.
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Even in places where luck plays asecondaryrole, the doctrine of causation is still active.
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In such cases, the ecological distance between hosts becomes the main determinant of the likelihood of host switching, with phylogenetic distance playing asecondaryrole.
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However, in lower infections, the saturation of muscles must play asecondaryrole, relying mostly on the amount of blood flow in each muscle.
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In this context poor peasants play only asecondaryrolein deforestation.
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But the prominence of strategic concerns and imperial rivalry does not imply asecondaryrolefor commercial interests.
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We disagree with relegating ecological validity to thissecondaryrole.
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As the development intensifies, key activities are located in relation to a new major route, relegating the original roads to asecondaryrole.
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As far as the motives of their participation are concerned, oppression or the deprivation of the ruler played asecondaryrole.
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The economic crisis providing so stark a setting for democratic reform was to play only asecondaryrole in determining the timing and outcome of individual transition processes.
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Since we have no difficulty inferring depth under such conditions, one might conclude that stereo cues often play asecondaryrolein judging depth in humans.
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One implication of these discoveries is that dream emotion may be a primary shaper of dream plots rather than playing asecondaryrolein dream plot instigation.
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