adverb
- Before now.
- usage: "why didn't you tell me in the first place"
- synonyms: earlier, in the beginning, to begin with, originally
- Of primary import.
- usage: "this is primarily a question of economics"; "it was in the first place a local matter"
- synonyms: primarily
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