Meaning of importance in English

importance

noun [ U ]

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/ɪmˈpɔː.təns/ us

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/ɪmˈpɔːr.təns/

the quality of being important:

The health report stresses the importance of fresh food in a diet.

She attaches a lot of importance to personal possessions.

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I'd just like to stress the importance of neatness and politeness in this job.
It's a country which places great importance on education.
Will you phone me back - it's a matter of some importance.
I don't attach any importance to these rumours.
Her health is what matters - the cost of the treatment is of secondary importance.

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(Definition of importance from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

importance | Business English

importance

noun [ U ]

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/ɪmˈpɔːtəns/ us

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the quality of being important:

Some managers acknowledge the importance of balancing work and family, and believe it necessary to design specific policies.

(Definition of importance from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of importance

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This concept has gained importance in recent years, and may give an indication of the qualitative level of an institution's study programme, teaching and learning.

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Using only the most rigorous design, on the other hand, ignores the probative importance of replication and corroboration that multiple studies afford.

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This more holistic approach is supposedly reflected in the importance now accorded to social and psychological aspects of the disabling process.

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Evaluating the importance of reducing the duration of untreated psychosis.

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This reinforces the importance of the problem in countries without well organized health care or without wide access of the entire population to such care.

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The findings underline the importance of using specific rather than general tasks to assess phonology, phonological sensitivity, and phonological representations.

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Five participants reported the importance of information as a source of control for the patients.

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Importance of recovering victims and their personal effects.

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Identifying the paths children take in recruiting already existing linguistic devices for new conceptual-syntactic mappings is of theoretical importance.

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Particular importance is attached to the gap between the theory and practice of law, and how the divergence could be reduced.

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They selfassessed quality of performance, importance to one's identity and satisfaction in their family roles.

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What should be stressed is the importance of meritarian criteria in our general thinking about justice.

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Residents who had been involved in preference relocations stressed the importance of having choices for their initial and subsequent moves into, within and between care-homes.

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The importance of social cognition in conversational development has been stressed by many authors.

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What must be stressed, however, is the range and importance of its findings.

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Collocations with importance

importance

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central importance

Of central importance, we demonstrated that preventive intervention can foster the development of the executive regulatory system.

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considerable importance

But there is now a point of considerable importance to be made.

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critical importance

This finding indicates that additional terms such as hydration and polyelectrolyte effects are of critical importance.

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Translations of importance

in Chinese (Traditional)

重要性…

Meaning of importance in English

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