adverb
- For the most part.
- usage: "he is mainly interested in butterflies"
- synonyms: chiefly, principally, mainly, in the main
- Of primary import.
- usage: "this is primarily a question of economics"; "it was in the first place a local matter"
- synonyms: in the first place
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