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secondary purpose

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meanings of secondaryand purpose


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secondary
adjective
uk /ˈsek.ən.dri/ us /ˈsek.ən.der.i/
less important than ...
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purpose
noun
uk /ˈpɜː.pəs/ us /ˈpɝː.pəs/
why you do something or why ...
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Examples of secondary purpose


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A secondarypurpose of this paper was to review evidence for bilinguals' use of gestures across languages.
A secondarypurpose of this paper is to review results from the few studies exploring the issue of cross-linguistic transfer of bilinguals' gestures.
Its secondarypurpose was to get suffragettes into prison.
The provision to transfer objects between collections is a secondarypurpose to which the schedule has been put.
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But its secondarypurpose is to protect the taxpayer.
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Its primary purpose 13 consolidation and its secondarypurpose is to make the consolidation effective by minor alterations in the law.
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That is the principal purpose of new clause 2, but it also serves a secondarypurpose.
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It does, incidentally, fulfil a secondarypurpose of enabling fire authorities to secure information to help them in fire fighting.
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The conserving of marine flora and fauna, which was previously a secondarypurpose, has now been made the primary purpose.
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In the broad environmental context, the secondarypurpose of road charging is to deal with physical problems in local areas.
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Such secondarypurpose; will be acceptable only after all the local housing need has been met.
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The main purpose is to prevent the spread and the coalescence of towns, and the secondarypurpose is to provide opportunities for recreation.
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It is perfectly obvious that in that case it would be nonsense to refer to that purpose as a secondarypurpose.
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But it has a secondarypurpose—to assist those people who have suffered owing to the floods.
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The secondarypurpose, which is also very important, is that we should have some idea of the sort of suggestions that will be made.
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That is the secondarypurpose, but the first is to see whether the law is being broken.
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That takes us back to the secondarypurpose argument.
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What is the secondarypurpose?
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A secondarypurpose—the social purpose of sport—is to enable sport to make its enormous contribution to the good health and personal relationships that are so necessary in our community life.
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The secondarypurpose is to automatically generate source code from the model.
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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