WordPress get current user's role

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function get_user_role() { // returns current user's role
 
    global $current_user;
 
    $user_roles = $current_user->roles;
 
    $user_role = array_shift($user_roles);
 
    return $user_role; // return translate_user_role( $user_role );
 
}

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