traditional role
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftraditionalandrole
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traditional
adjective
uk/trəˈdɪʃ.ən.əl/us/trəˈdɪʃ.ən.əl/
following or belonging to the customs or ways of behaving that have continued in a group of people or society for a long time ...
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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 oftraditionalandrolefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The requirement to assess clients' financial circumstances was the main conflict reported for district nurses compared to theirtraditionalrole.
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In other words, the planned patio is highly used and reminiscent of thetraditionalroleof this space.
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That may not be thetraditionalrolewe have seen for ourselves, but it is a useful one.
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High dependency was especially difficult to tolerate in a relationship built upon the husband'straditionalroleas provider.
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The perception of an artist's talent is vital to her credibility, and it is here that women'straditionalroleas singers is extremely relevant.
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In our account, monads are used in a moretraditionalroleas a means of threading state through a program.
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They must be considered in light of multiple issues - theirtraditionalroleas well as within the context of modern, central heating.
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Emerging technologies had challenged thetraditionalroleof the architect, arguably rendering the profession an adjunct to engineering solutions making use of new technologies.
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The clergy gradually lost theirtraditionalroleas intellectual leaders.
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Through the use of this system for composition, it is seen that thetraditionalroleof the composer is replaced by the composerscientist.
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There is reluctance to use like even in itstraditionalroleas a preposition.
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By performing this duty he was in effect supplanting women in theirtraditionalrole.
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The mothers who did pursue careers nonetheless still favoured thetraditionalroleof motherhood, a principle that places mothering at the centre of a woman's life.
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Justi thereby expanded thetraditionalroleof the police official to include chemistry.
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Local authority social services departments became the lead agency, resulting in a fundamental change in thetraditionalroleof social workers to that of resource managers.
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Functionalism also undermined thetraditionalroleof the architect as a form-giver, whose work was based on the inventive use of historicized facades.
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This is a very old andtraditionalrolefor archaeology; the new boss is the same as the old boss, only the names signing the paychecks have changed.
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The state sought to promote family life and a moretraditionalrolefor women at home, albeit in addition to a full shift in the collective farm or factory.
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I propose a moretraditionalrolefor language in thought as providing the basis for the cultural development and transmission of domain-general abstract knowledge and reasoning skills.
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I first consider the concept of causation and itstraditionalrolein ascertaining an individual's culpability for bringing about a particular consequence or state of affairs.
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