precedence
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6.4
- noun
- /ˈpriːsɪdəns/
:
prioridad
- Significantly, where local disputes took precedence over party differences, the level of public interest was greatest.
- takes precedence
- give precedence to
- precedence over others
I don't think that people really give precedence to the single father story.
- I don't think that people really give precedence to the single father story.
- Chevy is GM because I had read that Chevy was giving precedence to the Lyft drivers for the bolt.
- Am I seeing correctly that the story that the, that the test is taking precedence over the filming?
- But really, I'd say it's, it's this idea of, of comfort tends to, tends to take precedence.
- For a narcissistic person, gaining dominance and validation takes precedence over everything, including the truth.
- So they, they, they can love another person, but their self preservation takes precedence.
- My desire and and my family's desire to see me well, again, yeah, absolutely took precedence, bar none.
- What principle takes precedence over the sick at heart?
- And there's a whole hierarchy of food and which foods take precedence based on.
- And the practical has a precedence for Stoics over the purely theoretical.
Examples
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Their place in his community, as he perceives it, will take precedence over any of her individual wants and desires.
Academic text (2017) -
First, other educational demands were said to receive precedence over efforts to meet the needs of students with ASD.
Academic text (2015) -
We have hundreds of applications, which take precedence over yours.
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The right to eat takes precedence over the right to make a profit.
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For China, this has meant that collective rights take precedence over individual rights.
Academic text (1999) -
There are many qualifications for any job, but sometimes one takes precedence over all others.
Fiction book (1999) -
Affairs of state don't take precedence over the affairs of God.
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The disability often takes precedence over other considerations, limiting students to one label.
Academic text (2011) -
Criticism, that is to say advocacy, has naturally taken precedence over the more analytical procedures of history.
Academic text (1990) -
In many organizations, safety takes precedence over productivity to ensure employee welfare.
Synonyms
831
3.7
A thing you think is more important and should be done first
663
1.0
A quality that makes something have great value or effect
70
3.5
The most important thing to deal with first
14
8.0
A state of being more important than other things or people
4
7.9
Being better than others in an area, like skill or success
3
6.1
One thing being more important or more common than others
The right to come before others in time, order, or rank
A state of being first in order or importance
One thing that is more powerful or common than others
Antonyms
- Specialized
1
8.6
An arrangement that puts one debt below another when being paid back
How Important
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Precedence comes from the Latin parts prae- 'before' and cedere 'to go', like the word precede. That image of 'going before' helps: if someone has precedence, they are allowed to 'go before' others or are treated as more important.