functions

Example Sentences

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Hong Kong requires incorporated companies to appoint a corporate secretary that files its annual returns, among other compliance functions.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

Other charitable funds help maintain the department’s fleet of helicopters, support the spouses and children of slain officers and promote the official police department band that performs at graduations, funerals and other functions.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

It functions as a representative body for an estimated 150,000 Tibetans living in exile worldwide.

From Barron's • May 27, 2026

Scottish Greens co-leader Gillian Mackay told the programme that some "shared functions" could work.

From BBC • May 24, 2026

All of this awareness depends on a basic grasp of what grammatical categories are, how they differ from functions and meanings, and how they fit into trees.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker