precedence

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The state of preceding in importance or priority.

   • Family takes precedence over work, in an emergency.
   • I wrote to […] Mr. Payne, who was wholly unconscious that we were engaged on the same work, and freely offered him precedence and possession of the field till no longer wanted.
2. 2

   Precedent.

   • Verses of probably no literary value, but illustrating a kind of rhythm, a melodic innovation that you will not find in Chaucer, though there is ample precedence in Provence
   • […] the intention certainly is that all parts of the amendment should cover comparable bodies in Scotland: There is perfectly good precedence for this in Part I of the Bill […]
   • If such cases did exist, they seem not to have been committed to paper. Psychiatrists, in such circumstances, may have followed the precedence of their spiritual forebears—religious confessors—in respecting the privacy of their patients.

The neighborhood

• synonymanteriority
• neighborNot to be confused with precedent