main source

collocation in English

meanings of mainand source

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main
adjective[before noun]
uk /meɪn/ us /meɪn/
larger, more important, or having more influence than others of the ...
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source
noun[C]
uk /sɔːs/ us /sɔːrs/
the place something comes from or starts at, or the cause ...
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Examples of main source

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Non-married older people of both sexes were far more likely than the married to rely on children as their mainsource of income.
The slopes around the site, belonging to the catchment area of the local water current, must have been the mainsource area of pollen.
Usually, the family itself is the mainsource of this inadequacy at protecting the loved one's values.
The extension service was cited as the mainsource of fresh seeds particularly in villages without seed banks.
Interestingly, the media were the mainsource of information for most people.
This legal clearing percentage has been used to issue conversion (clearing) permits and has become the mainsource of timber exploitation.
Roads are the mainsource of human disturbance in these forests, because villages are sited on the roads.
The censuses contain statistics on occupations, but cannot serve as the mainsource for a study analysing questions on servant recruitment and careers.
Early on, this type frequency factor dominates learning and provides the mainsource of productivity.
The other mainsource of food, fishing, was curtailed as a consequence of the cold winters that followed the eruption.
This filter s out only the highest of the 100 possible modes as these are the mainsource of numerical grid scale noise.
Loans were the mainsource of finance for capital projects.
Both of the two mainsource types have strengths and weaknesses which need to be considered.
The mainsource was the personal experience of the designer.
First, in many species including rat, mice, rabbit, goats and pigs, the corpus luteum is the mainsource of progesterone until term.
Income from peanuts, reinvested in cattle and stock, became the mainsource of the wealth that allowed young men to strive for social independence.
Secondly, while it is expected that spouses will continue to be the mainsource of support, they too are ageing.
The mainsource of income tends to shift with age and as older people become economically inactive (results not shown).
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