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roles

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1. roles

   Plural form of the word role.

   The company has a number of directors each with specific roles and responsibilities.

   Submitted by MaryC on December 21, 2015  

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'roles' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3485

Anagrams for roles »

1. slore

2. loser

3. lo-res

4. sorel

5. relos

How to pronounce roles?

1. 

   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

How to say roles in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of roles in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of roles in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of roles in a Sentence

1. Ann Kirkpatrick:

   Hard work and determination — which have brought me success in life — have not been enough to win this battle. Other than being a wife, mother, and grandmother, the most important job in the world to me is representing my fellow Arizonans. I know I must get better in order to do my best in each of these roles.

2. Lauren Gardner:

   He's gotten to play some pretty major roles in some really central problems to the society for someone that's six months into a degree program, i keep telling him that he needs to not get used to this and it's not normal. And [ that ] the rest of his PhD experience is going to be really boring, but I don't think he believes me.

3. Nick Dulvy:

   Most sharks are important predators and therefore can play key roles in keeping ecosystems functioning. Depletion of sharks is expected to have negative effects on populations of prey species, many of which may be also be sharks, or rays.

4. Francesco Motta:

   We have a lot of information on the recruitment of children, children as young as nine, to train them sometimes to use them as suicide operatives in their operations, but also forcing them to give blood and also take armed combat roles in other parts where conflict is taking place.

5. Betty Naomi Friedan:

   If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.

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