Look up: precedence

1. precedence
   [n] - status established in order of importance or urgency
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2. precedence
   Order or rank in which people should be placed on ceremonial occasions, depending partly upon letters patent and partly upon ancient custom. Questions of precedence are the responsibility of the...
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3. precedence
   a designation assigned to a message by the originator to indicate to communication personnel the relative order of handling and to the addressee the order in which the message is to be noted Category: Defense
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4. precedence
   precedency noun status established in order of importance or urgency; `...its precedence as the world`s leading manufacturer of pharmaceuticals`; `national independence takes priority over class struggle`
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5. Precedence
   • (n.) Alt. of Precedency
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6. precedence
   precedence 1. A status established in order of importance or urgency. 2. A relative importance in rank and status that determines something; such as, the order in which participants are placed in a formal situation. 3. The right or need to be dealt with before someone or something else or to be tr...
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7. Precedence
   The established system of priorities of trades in an exchange. For example, the highest bid and lowest offer have highest precedence; the first bid or first offer at a price has highest priority, and large orders have priority over smaller orders.
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8. precedence
   operator precedence
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9. precedence
   
   • status established in order of importance or urgency
   • preceding in time
   • the act of preceding (as in a ceremony)
   
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10. Precedence
    The right of being first placed in a certain order, the first rank being supposed the most honorable. 2. In this country no precedence is given by law to men. 3. Nations, in their intercourse with each other, do not admit any precedence; hence in their treaties in one copy one is named first, and th...
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11. Precedence
    (solitaire) `Precedence` (also known as `Order of Precedence`) is a solitaire card game which uses two decks of playing cards. It is a building game where the playing does not have to worry about a tableau or playing area. In the book 100 Solitaire Games by Sloane Lee and Gabriel Packa...
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