Synonym: antecedence, antecedency, anteriority, precedency, precession, priority. Similar words: precedent, unprecedented, precede, recede, antecedent, preceding, credence, preponderance of evidence. Meaning: [prɪ'sɪːdns /'presɪdəns] 
n. 1. status established in order of importance or urgency 2. preceding in time 3. the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony).
n. 1. status established in order of importance or urgency 2. preceding in time 3. the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony). 
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61. The semantic constraint may take precedence over acoustic information. 4.2.2.2.
62. Moreover, children gave precedence to the matching rule in situations where it conflicted with another rule.
63. However, should these agreements conflict with governors' statutory responsibilities the latter will take precedence.
64. This is presumably not Clinton's intention, but illustrates short-term advantages taking precedence over long-term objectives.
65. The citation order now gives precedence to processes, such as circulation control and cataloguing, rather than to types of libraries. 6.
66. So children take precedence over animals and other human beings generally do also.
67. On each occasion exchange-rate policy took precedence over the introduction of monetary and fiscal policy appropriate to the needs of the economy.
68. Defining abuse can allow the relative power of the carer to take precedence over the plight of the older person.
69. Many of the manifestations of this passionate interest in ceremonial and precedence were not particularly dangerous.
70. The biological fact of her femininity took precedence over serious critical evaluations of her work.
71. Husbands are usually higher earners than their wives and their jobs or carers take precedence over those of women.
72. In other words the rules of precedence and other aspects of diplomatic ceremonial were not immutable.
73. But ceremonial and precedence none the less remained until well into the eighteenth century a factor of importance in international relations.
74. In the steepest, wettest areas, stock-rearing takes complete precedence, and little, if any(sentencedict.com), arable farming is undertaken.
75. Any statutory rules will of course take precedence over contractual rules.
76. Sam takes precedence over both Carl and Dad, actually, in terms of influence.
77. There is precedence for this long duration between introduction of the drug and the development of hepatitis.
78. If the main objective is vertical equity, the ability to pay. principle must usually take precedence.
79. National defence must take precedence over all other questions.
80. And my potty training took precedence over absolutely everyting.
81. Economic problems must take precedence of other questions.
82. These are questions which take precedence of all others.
83. Very often the picture takes precedence over the point.
84. This grammar also knows about operator precedence.
84. Sentencedict.com try its best to gather and create good sentences.
85. Precedence involves assigning a priority level to a call.
86. Radiologic diagnosis will be given precedence.
87. Label declaration takes precedence in any ambiguous situation.
88. Each operator has a precedence level and associativity.
89. Communalism holds that social community has precedence over individuals.
90. This task must be given precedence over all others.
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