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Definition: Precedency |
PrecedencyNoun1. 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 "precedency" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
Synonyms: PrecedencySynonyms: antecedence (n), antecedency (n), anteriority (n), precedence (n), precession (n), priority (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: posteriority (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Precedency |
| Specialty definitions using "precedency": KNIGHT AND BARROW PIG. (references) |
| "Precedency" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Precedency" is used about 3 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) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "precedency"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مقدم بر (Beforehand), مسبوق به سابقه , ماقبل (Past), سابقه داشتن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Vorrang (antecedence, precedence, primacy, priorities, priority, right of way). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | προβάδισμα (precedence), προτεραιότησ (anteriority, precedence, previousness, priority, seniority), προτεραιότητα (antecedence, precedence, previousness, priority, right of way, seniority). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | priorit (precedence, priority), precedenza (precedence, priority, right of way). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ecedencypray prioridade (antecedence, front burner, precedence, preference, primacy, priority, priory, right of way, seniority), primazia (precedence, pre-eminence, primacy, priority), precedência (anteriority, precedence), superioridade (advantage, archness, better, boot, chic, distinction, eminence, mastery, precedence, pre-eminence, prepotency, superiority), antecedência (advance, antecedence, precedence). (various references) prioridad (precedence, preference, priority), precedencia (precedence, priority). (various references) старшинство (precedence, precession, priority, seniority, superiority), першість (antecedence, anteriority, championship, lead, pas, precedence, primacy), перевага (advantage, allowance, ascendant, asset, benefit, boon, bulge, capital, convenience, easement, excellence, excellency, odds, overbalance, overweight, precedence, preference, preponderance, prepotence, prepotency, privilege, pull, purchase, start, superiority, supremacy, transcendence, vantage), передування (antecedence, anteriority, precedence, precession, priority). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-d-e-e-e-n-p-r-y" | |
-2 letters: credence. | |
-3 letters: decency, precede, preened, recency. | |
-4 letters: creepy, creped, crepey, decern, decree, deepen, deeper, needer, peened, peered, preyed, pyrene, recede, redeny, redeye. | |
-5 letters: ceder, cered, creed, creep, crepe, crepy, cyder, decry, ender, needy, nerdy, peery, pence, perdy, preed, preen, recce, redye, reedy. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 72 65 63 65 64 65 6E 63 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .-. . -.-. . -.. . -. -.-. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01110010 01100101 01100011 01100101 01100100 01100101 01101110 01100011 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P r e c e d e n c y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0072 0065 0063 0065 0064 0065 006E 0063 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50847169717071806991 |
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