Role in a sentence as a noun

What is the government's role?This is pretty simple.

Steve Jobs is known to the majority of people only for his role at Apple.

This role is what he was praised for across the internet and in magazines after his death.

I've regretted my role in that implementation for several years.

They are listing aggregators, essentially filling the same role as MLS software.

I'm not trying to be hyperbolic but that's really shocking for a company that is trying to play a role as a financial institution.

We are now a country that starts unnecessary wars, tortures detainees and denies due process and spends vast resources on surveilling every citizen and she had a role in that.

Rice had a significant role in destroying the values I once thought were vitally important in claiming American exceptionalism.

Do we really want a counterpart agenda now setting rules for who can be a founder, who can be an investor, who can be a director, who can be a CEO, or who can otherwise take a prominent role in the startup world?

In graduate school, my thesis focused on the Southeast US from Reconstruction through the Civil Rights Act of 1964, investigating the role religion played in the development, acceptance, and perpetuation of the Souths attitudes and behaviors toward race, class, and gender.

The Court's role in hearing such discretionary appeals is to step in and decide important questions of federal law or to determine who is right when the various lower federal appellate courts may have reached conflicting decisions on such points of law in way that cries out of definitive resolution by the highest court.

Role definitions

noun

the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group; "the function of a teacher"; "the government must do its part"; "play its role"

See also: function office part

noun

an actor's portrayal of someone in a play; "she played the part of Desdemona"

See also: character part persona

noun

what something is used for; "the function of an auger is to bore holes"; "ballet is beautiful but what use is it?"

See also: function purpose

noun

normal or customary activity of a person in a particular social setting; "what is your role on the team?"