key role

collocation in English

meanings of keyand role

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key
adjective
uk /kiː/ us /kiː/
very important and having a lot of influence on other people ...
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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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Examples of key role

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This observation is used in the proof of the following elementary lemma, which plays a keyrole in the main results of this section.
The central theoretical concern focuses on the idea of regulatory ritualism and its keyrole in regulatory capitalism.
The evidence was rated as admissible at a post-conviction hearing and played a keyrole in having the accused released in 2003.
Multi-branched loops can play a keyrole in tertiary structure because they can act as flexible hinges between otherwise fairly rigid helical domains.
This board would be the precursor to the local advisory boards that would later play a keyrole in managing the public grasslands.
Chapter vii, a splendid example of full and compelling analysis germane to the book's most ambitious goals, also plays a keyrole in its structure.
Partners have a keyrole in moving research results toward action in policies, programmes, and practice.
The thickness of the silique, an organ that does not produce ethylene, may have a keyrole in controlling the gas concentration during maturation.
The presentation is set in a broader context of 'positive' analysis, analysis where order-theoretic notions and notions of positivity play a keyrole.
It will be difficult to make the case that land that is neither residential nor developed plays a keyrole in constituting the owner's identity.
Such models will likely play a keyrole in furthering our understanding of the transcriptional control of normal and pathological diaphragm development.
Referrals to community groups and networks are increasingly advocated as having a keyrole within healthcare.
This is all the more surprising given the keyrole of the study of music in the development of these arguments.
It can be those external factors, not social capital, that may play the keyrole in the process.
These reporting clauses play a keyrole in the construction of major claims, with greater writer visibility seen in politics than materials.
The territorial state played a keyrole in this, sustaining some groups while eroding others.
In the implosion process, the hydrodynamic instability has a keyrole in attaining the ignition.
Steric potentials beneath a plane defined by the three putative binding sites plays a keyrole in determining agonist activity.
In the project, functional programming played a keyrole in the development, allowing us to identify recurrent functional abstractions or patterns in the distributed system.
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