dual role

collocation in English

meaningsofdualandrole

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dual
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈdʒuː.əl/
us
/ˈduː.əl/
with two parts, or combining ...
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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 ofdualandrolefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdual role

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Thedualroleof encouraging original work and critiquing it is difficult.
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In such a framework, a control policy has thedualroleof discouraging emissions and triggering new abatement technologies.
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The object language serves thedualroleof a specification language and a hardware description language.
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But we have seen that the aporia also indicates thedualrolethe text plays in the constitutive formation to which it belongs.
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The main theme that runs through the whole volume is thedualroleof many species as both seed predators and dispersers.
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Is there excessive pressure on primary care health professionals to undertake thedualroleof research and service commitment?
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Export and static clauses play adualrole.
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Thus, anti-explanations play adualroleto explanations.
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In equations (19) and (20) the interest rate r plays adualrole.
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These identifiable garments would ideally play adualrole.
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The presence of the farm invaders thus served adualrole.
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This culture of dwifungsi (dualrolein society) bred corruption through random expropriation of land, contracts, and licences.
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We suggest, therefore, adualrolefor the pre-furrowing microtubule array during cytokinesis in zebrafish zygotes.
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This mirrors thedualroleof the member states: they are both promoters of integration and subjects to its consequences.
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In this setting, a control policy has thedualroleof discouraging emissions and triggering new abatement technologies.
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Therefore, the host immune system can play thedualroleof tumour cell elimination and tumour cell growth promotion.
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Thisdualroleof outpatient and inpatient care provided continuity of care, but was perceived as inefficient by the managers of the medical group.
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Therefore, the model explicitly shows that a control policy has thedualroleof discouraging emissions and triggering new abatement technologies.
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