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Definition: Precedence |
PrecedenceNoun1. 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". 2. Preceding in time. 3. The act of preceding (as in a ceremony). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "precedence" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | An order relation defining the sequence of the application of operators within an expression. Source: European Union. (references) |
Military | A designation assigned to a message by the originator to indicate to communication personnel the relative order of handling and to the addressee the order in which the message is to be noted. (references) |
Public Administration | Break-in facility granted to specific extensions of a PABX. (PH/PTIH). Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Precedence is a simple ordering, based on either importance or sequence. For instance, when one thing is said to "take precedence" over another, it is either regarded as more important or is to performed first.See also Order of precedence.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Precedence."
Synonyms: PrecedenceSynonyms: antecedence (n), antecedency (n), anteriority (n), precedency (n), precession (n), priority (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: posteriority (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Precedence | Verb: precede; come before, come first; head, lead, take the lead; lead the way, lead the dance; be in the vanguard; introduce, usher in; have the pas; set the fashion; (influence); open the ball; take precedence, have precedence; have the start; (get before). |
Noun: precedence; coming before; Verb: the lead, le pas; superiority; importance; antecedence, | |
Precession | Verb: go before, go ahead, go in the van, go in advance; precede, forerun; usher in, introduce, herald, head, take the lead; lead the way, lead the dance; get the start, have the start; steal a march; get before, get ahead, get in front of; outstrip; take precedence; (first in order). |
Noun: precession, leading, heading; precedence; priority; the lead, le pas; van; (front); precursor. | |
Priority | Noun: priority, antecedence, anteriority, precedence, pre-existence; precession; precursor; the past; premises. |
Repute | Rank, standing, brevet rank, precedence, pas, station, place, status; position, position in society; order, degree, baccalaureate, locus standi, caste, condition. |
Live, flourish, glitter, flaunt, gain honor, acquire honor; Noun: play first fiddle; (be of importance), bear the palm, bear the bell; lead the way; take precedence, take the wall of; gain laurels, win laurels, gain spurs, gain golden opinions; (approbation); take one's degree, pass one's examination. | |
Superiority | Verb: be superior; Adjective: exceed, excel, transcend; outdo, outbalance, outweigh, outrank, outrival, out-Herod; pass, surpass, get ahead of; over-top, override, overpass, overbalance, overweigh, overmatch; top, o'ertop, cap, beat, cut out; beat hollow; outstrip; eclipse, throw into the shade, take the shine out of, outshine, put one's nose out of joint; have the upper hand, have the whip hand of, have the advantage; turn the scale, kick the beam; play first fiddle; (importance); preponderate, predominate, prevail; precede, take precedence, come first; come to a head, culminate; beat; all others, bear the palm; break the record; take the cake. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Precedence |
| English words defined with "precedence": better ♦ infix notation ♦ outrank ♦ Pas, Preambulation, Preaudience, precedency, precedential, priority, Priority of debts ♦ rank, right of way ♦ Silk gown, Subsequency ♦ To strain courtesy, To take place, To take rank of, To take the wall ♦ Writ of privilege. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "precedence": ALGOL W ♦ fandango on core ♦ imaging order ♦ King-of-Arms ♦ memory leak, movement priority ♦ PL360, precedence lossage, preferred debt ♦ Speaker's Eye. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Precedence" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Czech (antecedence). |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The Oratory of Paris claims the precedence, Philip di Neri being only a saint, and Berulle being a cardinal |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Scientific evidence was given precedence over clinical anecdotal experience. (references) | |
The Belmont report of 1978, which guides human medical research ethics in the United States, reaffirmed that the rights of individuals participating in clinical trials must take precedence over the potential benefit to society as a whole. (references) | ||
Business | English and Arabic are used as commercial languages, but Arabic takes precedence in official documents. (references) | |
Open tendering thus takes precedence over selective tendering, and selective tendering takes precedence over limited tendering. (references) | ||
Prior to 1989, Romania lacked any environmental policy and post 1989 the transition to a market economy took precedence over all other issues. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Cuba | The educational system teaches that the State's interests have precedence over all other commitments. (references) |
Croatia | As a result, this had the effect of reinforcing the legal precedence of temporary occupants over that of property owners, and it provided an easy means for hard-line officials to obstruct the process of minority returns. (references) | |
Korea | Articles of the Constitution that require citizens to follow "socialist norms of life" and to obey a "collective spirit" take precedence over individual political or civil liberties. (references) | |
Economic History | South Africa | The successful negotiation of a more-balanced bilateral trade accord with South Africa, Zimbabwe's largest trading partner, appears problematic at this time with South Africa saying that a regional accord will take precedence over any bilateral agreement. (references) |
Honduras | Law in Honduras has long been based on code rather than precedence, as in the U.S. The degree of unpredictability of outcomes of legal proceedings has been a source of some frustration for international traders and investors. (references) | |
Argentina | While official statistics for local production are not readily available, industry experts agree that imports continue to take precedence in terms of the importance of this market. (references) | |
Human Rights | Bahrain | For the previous 26 years, the Act had taken precedence over the Constitution in matters regarding arrest, detention, or exile. (references) |
Venezuela | On October 24, the Supreme Court ruled that civilian courts should hear the case, citing the precedence of Article 261 and the "ordinary," rather than "military," nature of the crime. (references) | |
Iran | If a situation is not addressed by statutes enacted after the 1979 revolution, the Government advises judges to give precedence to their own knowledge and interpretation of Islamic law, rather than rely on statutes enacted during the Pahlavi monarchy. (references) | |
Minorities | Slovak Republic | At the time, the law was deemed acceptable by the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities and the EU; however, all members of the Hungarian coalition voted against the law because they felt that it did not ensure that the provisions in the new law would take precedence over the existing state language law, and that the new law did not protect the use of Hungarian in cultural and educational activities. (references) |
Canada | In December 2000, a Superior Court ruled that the Charter of Rights and Freedoms takes precedence over Quebec's language law, but in January the Quebec Court of Appeal put the previous ruling on hold, and the case finally was dropped. (references) | |
Political Economy | Cameroon | In the National Assembly, government bills take precedence over other bills, and no bills other than government bills have been enacted since 1991, although the Assembly sometimes has not enacted legislation proposed by the Government. (references) |
Political Rights | Georgia | Ajara's authorities have claimed that regional laws must take precedence over national laws. (references) |
Travel | Ukraine | The form of business in Ukraine often takes precedence over the substance, making a U.S. partner's approach all the more important. (references) |
Women | Zimbabwe | However, in 2000 the Supreme Court upheld a magistrate court decision that, under customary ethnic law, a man's claim to family inheritance takes precedence over a woman's, regardless of the woman's age or seniority in the family. (references) |
Worker Rights | Turkmenistan | During the Soviet era, production took precedence over the health and safety of workers; legacies of this system remain. (references) |
Cuba | The demands of the economy and society take precedence over individual workers' preferences. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Precedence" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.73% of the time. "Precedence" is used about 368 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.73% | 367 | 14,753 |
| Noun (common) | 0.27% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 368 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "precedence": give precedence ♦ have precedence ♦ have the precedence ♦ operator precedence ♦ order of precedence ♦ precedence lossage ♦ take precedence ♦ take precedence of ♦ yield precedence to. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "precedence": precedence-but. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "precedence"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | prioritet (first refusal, priority), paraprirje, përparësi (antecedence, first refusal, pre eminence, precession, preference, priority), gradë më e lartë. (various references) | |
Arabic | حق الأولوية, تصدرية, صدارة (forefront, front, primacy), أسبقية (priority, seniority). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | старшинство (priority, seniority, superiority), ранг (grade, order, place, rank, rating, siege, state, status), чин (desk, form, position, rank, rating), първенство (anteriority, hegemony, pas, primacy, priority), преднина (lead, start), предимство (advantage, antecedence, asset, leg up, pas, plus, preference, priority, privilege, pull, right of way, score, start, vantage). (various references) | |
Chinese | 优先次序. (various references) | |
Czech | prvenství (primacy), priorita (preference, priority), přednost (advantage, asset, merit, preeminence, preference, priority, quality, reward, virtue). (various references) | |
Danish | prioritet (junior mortgage, mortgage, priority), operatorrangfølge (operator precedence), operatorpræcedens (operator precedence). (various references) | |
Dutch | volgorde van bewerkingen (operator precedence), opschakelen (break-in, busy override, call offering, circuit-entering, cut-in, intrusion, pre-emption, right of way). (various references) | |
Farsi | پیشی(precedency), حق تقدم (Preferment, Priority), سابقه (Acquaintance, Antecedent, Background, History, Intellect, Prehistory, Record, Scape, Shaft), امتیاز (Charter, Concession, Grant, Prerogative, Privilege, Prominence, Upperhand), اولویت (Preference, Premiership). (various references) | |
Finnish | etusija (preference, priority). (various references) | |
French | priorité (preference, priority). (various references) | |
German | Vorrang (antecedence, precedency, primacy, priorities, priority, right of way), Vorzug (advantage, asset, excellence, merit, preference, privilege, train before, train in front, virtue), Dringlichkeit (exigency, exiguity, immediacy, instancy, press, pressure, priority, urgency). (various references) | |
Greek | προτεραιότητα (antecedence, precedency, previousness, priority, right of way, seniority). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משפט "בכור", ק"ימ" (abreast, advancement, ahead, along, eastwards, forward, onward, onwards, preferment), ע"יפות (odds, preferability, preference, priority, superiority, supremacy), זכות ק"ימ" (preference, priority), זכות ע"יפות (priority, right of priority), בכור" (birthright, preference, primogeniture, priority, seniority). (various references) | |
Hungarian | megelőzés (anticipation, prevention, prophylaxis), elsőbbségi jog (preferential right), elsőbbség (antecedence, primacy, right of way). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mendulukan (give precedence to, give priority to), mendahulukan (give precedence to). (various references) | |
Italian | priorit degli operatori (operator precedence), priorit (precedency, priority), precedenza (precedency, priority, right of way). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 位 (order, rank), 班次 (ranking), 次第 (circumstances, order), 次第 (as soon as, circumstances, dependent upon, immediate, order), 先番 (first move), 先 (destination, end, former, head, late, nozzle, objective, old, point, previous, prior, priority, remainder, sequel, the first priority, the future, the other party, tip), 上席 (seniority, upper seat). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | し い (as soon as, circumstances, dependent upon, enormous, immediate, immense, magazine's price, order, private university or college), せ"ば" (a great many, exceedingly, first move, indeed, lathe, very many, very much), せ" (at length, attentively, beam, before, boastfully usurping, boil down, broil, carefully, choice, clip, compilation, cork, deeply, editing, fire, former, gland, hermit, hundredth of a yen, late, line, old, parch, previous, priority, profoundly, roast, selection, snip, stopcock, stopper, the future, thousand, wire, wizard), じゅ"い (order, rank, warrant-officer), じょうせき (castle site, entertainment hall, established tactic, one's habitual seat, play by the book, product, regular hall, ruins of a castle, seniority, standard move in shogi, upper seat), は"じ (judge, judiciary, ranking). (various references) | |
Korean | 앞서기. (various references) | |
Manx | tosheeaght (antecedence, preference, priority). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ecedencepray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | prioridade (antecedence, front burner, precedency, preference, primacy, priority, priory, right of way, seniority). (various references) | |
Romanian | prioritate (preference, priority), precedenţã (priority), precãdere (pre eminence, priority), anterioritate (anteriority). (various references) | |
Russian | приоритет операций, первенство (anteriority, championship, pas, primacy). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | prvenstvo (antecedents, anteriority, championship, pas, preference, prerogative, primacy, priority), prvenstvenost, preimućstvo (advantage, antecedents, asset, jump, lead, preference, priority, vantage), prednost (advantage, antecedents, availability, lead, one up, preference). (various references) | |
Spanish | prioridad (precedency, preference, priority). (various references) | |
Swedish | företräde (advantage, audience, pre eminence, preference, primacy, priority, right-of-way). (various references) | |
Turkish | üstünlük (advantage, altitude, ascendancy, ascendency, beat, championship, class, distinction, dominance, edge, eligibility, excellence, head start, hegemony, lordship, mastery, odds, overweight, pre eminence, predominance, preponderance, primacy, spirit, supereminence, superiority, supremacy, transcendence, virtue, whip hand), öncelik sırası (order of precedence), öncelik (antecedence, preference, primacy, priority), önce olma, önce gelme. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | старшинство (precedency, precession, priority, seniority, superiority), першість (antecedence, anteriority, championship, lead, pas, precedency, primacy), перевага (advantage, allowance, ascendant, asset, benefit, boon, bulge, capital, convenience, easement, excellence, excellency, odds, overbalance, overweight, precedency, preference, preponderance, prepotence, prepotency, privilege, pull, purchase, start, superiority, supremacy, transcendence, vantage), передування (antecedence, anteriority, precedency, precession, priority). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | quyền ở trước địa vị cao hơn, quyền đi trước (pas), quyền được trước (antecedence, priority), quyền đứng trước, địa vị trên. (various references) | |
Welsh | blaenoriaeth (preference), blaen (anterior, apex, edge, end, first, fore, foremost, front, point, priority, tip, top, van). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "precedence": precedences. (additional references) | |
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"Precedence" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pprecedence, precedance, precedences, precedense, precedented, preceedance, preceedence, precendence, precidence, precience, prescedence, presedence, pressedence, procedence, pruedence. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "precedence" (pronounced pre"suduns) |
| 6 | -s u d u n s | coincidence, dissidence, incidence. |
| 5 | -u d u n s | confidence, decadence, evidence, overconfidence, Providence, residence. |
| 4 | -d u n s | abundance, accordance, ascendance, attendance, avoidance, cadence, correspondence, credence, dependence, guidance, impedance, imprudence, independence, interdependence, jurisprudence, overabundance, overdependence, prudence, riddance, subsidence, transcendence. |
| 3 | -u n s | absence, abstinence, acceptance, abeyance, abhorrence, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, assistance, assurance, audience, balance, belligerence, beneficence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, countenance, counterbalance, counterintelligence, dalliance, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, equivalence, essence, evanescence, excellence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, hindrance, ignorance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impatience, importance, impotence, inadvertence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nonviolence, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overreliance, parlance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, pestilence, petulance, phosphorescence, pittance, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, prescience, presence, prevalence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, province, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, resemblance, resilience, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, science, semblance, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subservience, subsistence, substance, surveillance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transference, transience, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, variance, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference, vigilance, violence, virulence. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-d-e-e-e-e-n-p-r" | |
-2 letters: credence, deepener. | |
-3 letters: precede, preened. | |
-4 letters: creped, decern, decree, deepen, deeper, needer, peened, peered, recede. | |
-5 letters: ceder, cered, creed, creep, crepe, ender, pence, preed, preen, recce. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-d-e-e-e-e-n-p-r" | |
+1 letter: precedences. | |
+2 letters: precedencies. | |
+4 letters: preadolescence. | |
+5 letters: preadolescences. | |
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