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US
/ˈɹoʊɫ/
]
[ UK /ɹˈəʊl/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈəʊl/ ]
NOUN
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normal or customary activity of a person in a particular social setting
what is your role on the team? -
the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
play its role
the government must do its part
the function of a teacher -
what something is used for
the function of an auger is to bore holes
ballet is beautiful but what use is it? -
an actor's portrayal of someone in a play
she played the part of Desdemona
How To Use role In A Sentence
- Add the chopped tomatoes, chillis and refried beans to the casserole with a little salt and pepper. 5.
- The role of administrator absorbed much of Ben's energy.
- It was in her role as a career-obsessed TV weathergirl in Gus Van Sant's 1995 satire ‘To Die For’ that Kidman started to win audiences over.
- Josefina Scaglione's YouTube video When Mr. Laurents first called the willowy soprano, who speaks with lushly rolled r's and sometimes interrupts conversation to ask the meaning of an English word, she was performing the role of Amber Von Tussle in a Buenos Aires production of "Hairspray. I've Just Met a Girl Named Josefina
- It is also her misfortune to have been saddled with an unappetisingly needy role. Times, Sunday Times
- The role enables the researcher to gain the confidence of the group that accepts her in her false role.
- The Holy Alliance was the joint labour of an unfortunate man who had suffered a terrible mental shock and who was trying to pacify his much-disturbed soul, and of an ambitious woman who after a wasted life had lost her beauty and her attraction and who satisfied her vanity and her desire for notoriety by assuming the rôle of self-appointed Messiah of a new and strange creed. The Story of Mankind
- The plan laid out in 1996 to change welfare to workfare recognized and provided for the critical role child care would play in transitioning from government dependency to personal responsibility.
- The SF - 36 dimension representing role limitations due to emotional problems was dichotomised for analysis, since the original scale contains only four values.
- Theories that emphasize the role of education in reproducing existing societal norms and values may overlook its important role as a force for changing them. Sociology