diminishing role

collocation in English

meaningsofdiminishandrole

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diminish
verb[I or T]
uk
/dɪˈmɪn.ɪʃ/us
/dɪˈmɪn.ɪʃ/
to reduce or be reduced in size ...
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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 ofdiminishandrolefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdiminishing role

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The role of informal systems does not mean adiminishingrolefor formal seed systems.
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Broomhills seems to me an ideally suited staging post; surely it must have an enlarging rather than adiminishingrole.
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I do not think that we are giving adiminishingroleto basic research.
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As education authorities have adiminishingrolein education, allowing up to five local authority representatives on those bodies seems somewhat excessive.
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Given thediminishingroleof the local education authorities in education, that risk may become even worse.
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There is a danger that local authorities are merely becoming local arms of a national bureaucracy and that they are playing adiminishingrole.
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But it is adiminishingrole.
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As a socioeconomic geographer, she conducted interviews with the district inhabitants, and studies of thediminishingroleof the local steelworks in their daily lives.
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Over the next six years, he played a graduallydiminishingrolewith the team.
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This marked the beginning of the castle'sdiminishingroleas a royal residence.
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Bell has since told the media that he did not demand a trade, but that he simply was disappointed in hisdiminishingroleon the team.
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