PRIMARILY


Meaning of PRIMARILY in English

adverb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

consist mainly/largely/primarily of sb/sth

The audience consisted mainly of teenagers.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

concerned

Few of the canvases are primarily concerned with landscape, but it tends to find its way into most of them.

In contrast, government spending on transfer payments is primarily concerned with equity and income redistribution.

The author assumes considerable familiarity with the subject and is primarily concerned with the evolution of the sculptor's style.

Remarkably, the voice of those primarily concerned by the issue, namely Arab women, has been totally missing.

Distribution is primarily concerned with the task of moving the product to the consumer.

While written tests are primarily concerned with the content objectives, mathematical investigations submitted as coursework test the process objectives.

In stratigraphy we are primarily concerned with the starts and the finishes, not with the monotonous middles.

Children found it easier to communicate than their parents, but were primarily concerned about learning more about the seizures.

interested

There are also specialist scissors for those who are primarily interested in crafts.

The Great Powers who wished to intervene were primarily interested in the destruction of Bolshevism rather than in national independence perse.

If the investigation is undertaken by some one primarily interested in intonation, for example, the data selected has to meet certain requirements.

responsible

It report points out that, in many developing countries, women are primarily responsible for subsistence farming.

If environmental factors were primarily responsible for its emergence among other populations, can the same be said for male homosexuals?

Even more striking was the upsurge in heavy industry, and for this the State itself was primarily responsible .

Women were also primarily responsible for the household.

Yet even in these households the woman is primarily responsible for performing such tasks.

The militia and citizen patrols remained primarily responsible for control of the black population.

A reduction in the incidence of progressive heart failure was primarily responsible for the reduced mortality.

Why is a woman and not a man primarily responsible for raising the children?

■ VERB

aim

This well-meaning law will have little effect on the type of owner at whom it is primarily aimed .

These circuits are aimed primarily at business planning to make extensive use of the Internet.

Hence, this was the first of his conference performances which was aimed primarily at the nation.

It would be aimed primarily at individuals and small businesses that are only interested in using one system.

His preaching was aimed primarily at the understanding and the conscience of his hearers.

Adolescents' social interaction... is aimed primarily at discussion.

This approach would have to be aimed primarily at general practice.

They are available at three levels and are aimed primarily at those seeking entry to higher education.

based

They are also primarily based on comparisons between the specialist and generic teams.

His rise to power in Washington is based primarily on his ability to seek compromise to get things done.

New staff development activities and provision and revision of activities is based primarily on feedback received.

But their contributions to corporate goals were based primarily on individual thought and action.

Shultz argues that our understanding of causality is based primarily on knowledge about the ways in which generative transmission occurs.

The information in this report is based primarily on testimonial evidence.

A number of studies based primarily upon private sector organisations have analysed the impact that these variables will have.

Based primarily on the sometimes fantastic testimony of children involved, he was sentenced to 12 consecutive life terms.

concentrate

Titles will primarily concentrate on subjects covered in the initial stages of an undergraduate chemistry course.

This will leave regions too concentrate primarily on short-term trading objectives.

The other classical joint degrees concentrate primarily on the areas indicated in their titles.

It is time to recognise the last three phases - currently we have concentrated primarily on the first phase.

concern

Private law primarily concerns the rights and obligations of citizens against and towards one another.

The health administrator is primarily concerned with the latter three tasks.

It is with this second group of writers that we are primarily concerned here.

This subsection is primarily concerned with the actual procedures for the collection of data.

If he is concerned primarily with survival value, he will design a culture with an eye to whether it will work.

We are not concerned primarily to multiply elite livestock, and still less do we want to clone human beings.

This article is concerned primarily with adoptions by non-relatives.

deal

In the main, retail banks deal in smaller amounts, other banks deal primarily with wholesale corporate business.

Since the Volunteer teachers were in such a heavy majority, this chapter will deal primarily with them.

Yet, as noted earlier, studies of poor families have dealt primarily with white households.

The PaperPort is a black-and-white scanner, which is fine if you deal primarily with documents instead of images.

About six of the papers deal primarily with instrumentation and the technology, and the rest are devoted to applications.

In the first stage, we primarily dealt with homogeneous networks, then moved to inter-networks that are heterogeneous in nature.

As my hon. Friend said, the Bill deals primarily with the delivery of health care in the community.

depend

The choice of materials by instrument makers, however, depends primarily on the local ecosystem.

The speed with which this will occur depends primarily upon the speed at which the prices of conventional fuels rise.

Similarly, in the rubbery state the shear modulus of all polymers depends primarily upon the density of cross-links.

The pattern of male involvement, however, has depended primarily on social class with important regional and national variations.

This depends primarily on the branch of fluid mechanics being studied.

design

They are designed primarily for practitioners who are either currently working or who have previous work experience in the industry.

Two specialized weapons, designed primarily for antitank warfare, were quite common, al-though they often stayed in camp.

Biotechnology is controlled by a handful of seed, agrochemical and pharmaceutical corporations whose proprietary products are designed primarily for Northern markets.

As a label, Gramola is still revived from time to time for releases that are primarily designed for the local market.

Those designed primarily to create individual pages, and those designed to create Web sites.

Justice demands therefore that it be designed primarily for living. not travel.

Like those cars, it's been designed primarily for the track.

Many of their positions and campaign strategies seem designed primarily to satisfy this or that focus group.

determine

Specific changes were determined primarily by the head and senior management team and only latterly by the rest of the staff.

In both companies the salespeople were commissioned; hence, their financial rewards were determined primarily by companywide compensation policies.

Flows of materials and energy have been primarily determined by market structures and economics and only secondarily by ecological factors.

But he has seemed primarily determined to justify his moves.

The shear properties of polymers, however, are primarily determined by the wriggling, bending and twisting of the chains.

With workers' real gross incomes determined primarily by accumulation, higher taxes bit into take-home pay.

Organizational direction is therefore primarily determined by problems and reaction rather than pro-active planning.

direct

This article was primarily directed at fellow members of the National Front.

His efforts were directed primarily at how structures evolve in people in general.

These tend to be directed primarily towards younger workers and the short-term unemployed.

Recall from Chapter 7 that minimizing is directed primarily at the lingering and unpalatable costs of reactive decisions and policies.

exist

These centres of production existed primarily to provide jobs, but also offered a social focus.

By this definition, large, nonprofit firms that exist primarily to accumulate wealth would not qualify.

Newspapers existed primarily to promote political causes.

This exists primarily because of the government's desire to finance a substantial part of its expenditure by cheap money rather than by taxation.

And they don't exist primarily to help consumers.

It is a truism that schools exist primarily for the personal development of pupils.

Above all it is clear that the County Championship will exist primarily to serve the interests of the national team.

focused

But criticism of Mrs Roosevelt focused primarily on her involvement in public issues.

Up to now, the meetings have focused primarily on black elected officials and appointed officials.

A final problem with applying traditional measurement techniques to white-collar professional groups was that traditional measurement focused primarily on efficiency.

Government health experts also focused primarily on partner reduction.

But Friday, long-term interest rates fell as investors focused primarily on the good inflation news.

Her thought process was primarily focused on the injustice of being in the hospital and projecting blame on to her parents.

intend

The rumours must have reached Richard's ears - indeed they may have been primarily intended for him.

Mines were intended primarily for vehicles, but infantrymen also fell victim to them.

It is primarily intended for health visitors, plus public health nurses, health promotion workers and other staff.

This stage was intended primarily to benefit employees and small and medium enterprises.

Many of these works were intended primarily for other experts in the field and attracted little popular attention.

serve

The audit is usually performed by a third party, primarily serving the interests of the party who delegated the responsibility.

It has been argued that the higher professionals primarily serve the interests of the wealthy and powerful.

Obviously, some megalithic structures did serve primarily for burial.

Most central city schools serve primarily poor, working class and minority students.

But such a strategy would serve primarily to relieve some symptoms of poverty rather than its cause.

For the most part they are unambitious publications, serving primarily the clientele of their own clearinghouses and reporting local activity.

use

Many of Whessoe's installations from the early years of this century still survive today and are used primarily for storage.

This season, expect him to be used primarily as the Cardinals' return specialist.

It is intended that the proceeds of any such issue would be used primarily to refinance existing debt.

The basement under the main building of the Institution was used primarily to store food.

The reason is simple, around 80% of all personal computers are used primarily for word processing or related tasks.

The loans, which are made independently and through credit cards, are primarily used for buying appliances and consolidating debts.

Minis are used primarily for on-line work, so they have to perform well in this respect.

Language is used primarily for communication.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

At my last job I worked primarily with immigrants.

Language is primarily a system of signs.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Diarrhoea was treated symptomatically, usually coincidentally by morphine given primarily for pain.

Neither did governing bodies regard their role as primarily concerned with monitoring the curriculum.

One is raised primarily for the purpose of foie gras, the succulent swollen liver of the goose.

Private law primarily concerns the rights and obligations of citizens against and towards one another.

The bond and currency markets, trading primarily via phone, operated throughout the day, but sluggishly.

The company expects the early versions of the chip will go into low-end desktop computers primarily sold outside the United States.

They told him that their plan, at the time, was to recruit primarily from medical and dental schools.

This paper is devoted primarily to harmonization of legal rights and duties arising under international transactions.

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