Collocations for "role"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "role" in context.
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role
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- play a [vital, basic, fundamental, leading] role (in)
- have a [vital] role to play (in)
- a [support, minor, secondary, key, major] role
- [traditional, gender] roles
- [has, got] the lead role in the [production of, play, movie]
- played the role of the [hero, villain, king]
- [refused, rejected, turned down] the role
- [had, played] a significant role in the [meeting, talks, negotiations]
- the [teacher's, politician's, parents'] role in society
- the role of [computers, technology] in the classroom
- the role of [exercise, education] in [growth, development, infancy]
- is (not) a [good, great] role model for young [people, girls, men]
- was a complete role reversal
'role' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
act
- acting
- actress
- advisory
- advocacy
- affected
- alleged
- ancillary
- appointment
- appropriate
- assume
- assumption
- bill
- central
- challenging
- changing
- commission
- complementary
- constraint
- consultant
- contention
- critical
- crucial
- decisive
- emphasize
- enact
- entry
- essential
- experienced
- fitness
- flesh
- forfeit
- fulfill
- fundamental
- ham
- have
- he
- highlight
- important
- incident
- increasingly
- indispensable
- influential
- integral
- key
- land
- lead
- leader
- leadership
- leading