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: precedence, precedency
- Preceding in time.
- synonyms: antecedence, antecedency, anteriority, precedence, precedency
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