noun
- Status established in order of importance or urgency.
- usage: "... Its precedence as the world's leading manufacturer of pharmaceuticals"; "national independence takes priority over class struggle"
- synonyms: precedency, priority
- Preceding in time.
- synonyms: priority, antecedence, antecedency, anteriority, precedency
- The act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony. ).
- synonyms: precession, precedency
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