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precedence::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | precedency, priority |
| Type of | high status |
| Has types | back burner, front burner |
| Derivation | precedential |
...its precedence as the world's leading manufacturer of pharmaceuticals.
precedence::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | precedency, precession |
| Type of | activity |
| Derivation | precede, precedent |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | antecedence, antecedency, anteriority, precedency, priority |
| Type of | earliness |
| Derivation | precede, precedent |
Examples of precedence
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The main drawback is that freight always takes precedence over passenger travel.
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I also agree that an incument office takes precedence over any previous offices.
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An order of precedence is a sequential hierarchy of nominal importance of items.
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Philo holds that good moral endowment takes precedence of teaching and practise.
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My objection was to giving precedence to, for example, science over engineering.
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A service that has its precedence set based upon the Company's years of service.
From the forbes.com
The order of precedence is based on their year of establishment as a university.
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See Order of precedence in Scotland and Order of precedence in Northern Ireland.
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The statutes of the various Orders of Chivalry set precedence for their members.
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- Status established in order of importance or urgency; "...its precedence as the world's leading manufacturer of pharmaceuticals"; "national independence takes priority over class struggle"
- Priority: preceding in time
- Precession: the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony)
- Precedence (also known as Order of Precedence) is a solitaire card game which uses two decks of playing cards. It is a building game where the playing does not have to worry about a tableau or playing area. ...
- The rules of conduct that, in the absence of other guidance, determine what should happen first. For example, in the absence of parentheses, you always do multiplication before addition.
- The established system of priorities of trades in an exchange. For example, the highest bid and lowest offer have highest precedence; the first bid or first offer at a price has highest priority, and large orders have priority over smaller orders.
- The order in which operations are performed when operators are used without explicit parentheses.
- When one task must be completed before another, the first is said to have precedence over the second.
- N. The ``strength'' of an operator, indicating how tightly it binds to its operands during parsing, especially as compared to other nearby operators. ...
