Synonym: basic, chief, dominant, essential, first, foremost, fundamental, important, leading, main, paramount, principal. Antonym: secondary. Similar words: primarily, prime, summary, rim, trim, shrimp, image, experiment. Meaning: ['praɪmərɪ] n. 1. a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen 2. one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing 3. coil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring circuit. adj. 1. of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondhand 2. not derived from or reducible to something else; basic 3. most important element 4. of or being the essential or basic part 5. of primary importance.
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121) But when Silicon Valley executives bankrolled a trio of anti-lawyer initiatives on the March primary ballot, trial lawyers rebounded.
122) This means primary care needs to continue to develop its own capacity to question the decisions that are being taken.
123) Defying the leaders of both political parties, moderates are asking voters to approve open primary elections for California.
124) As a control, sections were incubated with phosphate buffered saline instead of the primary monoclonal antibodies in the first step.
125) We also object to flagrant waste, particularly of resources devoted to attaining our primary objectives.
126) To some extent the advances made in our primary schools in the wake of the Plowden Report have been squandered.
127) It appears the naughty boys were in the altogether just as a primary school field trip walked past.
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128) Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
129) Continued abstinence from the primary substance or process of addiction.
130) Last week, you officially became a candidate for the White House when you appeared on the primary ballot in California.
131) But it is not only Marxists who argue that bureaucracies may owe their primary allegiance to a particular class.
132) Developments in primary care Primary care did not escape the attention of the Thatcher government either.
133) For positive controls(sentencedict.com), sections containing rectal carcinoma and normal mucosa were employed and for negative controls the primary antibodies were excluded.
134) It is not that teachers in our primary schools dislike teaching bright children.
135) Pupils sent home to beg A HARD-UP primary school has sent pupils home with begging bowls - yoghurt pots for collecting coins.
136) Could this be the primary reason for the decline of social capital over the last generation?
137) Initially, therefore, it is necessary to concentrate on the primary substance or process of addiction because this may be life-threatening.
138) Primary pulmonary hypertension is extremely rare, afflicting about 1, 500 people in the United States.
139) The staff of the receiving primary school would be alerted to the child's particular needs.
140) In many primary schools, this is likely to be up to 88 percent of the total budget.
141) Trying to determine where the bulk of investors' money has gone is the primary goal of the bankruptcy court.
142) The secondary market helps new issues get under way in the primary market and therefore provides capital for growing companies.
143) This famous and much-discussed distinction between primary and secondary qualities has historical antecedents in Galileo, Descartes, and Hobbes.
144) They can be primary or special schools, mixed groups of teaching and outside agency staff.
145) The differences were also evident in the age range of primary school pupils.
146) Then came the announcement that a further set of specimen questions would be sent out to primary schools in September.
147) Hutchison plans to announce an endorsement shortly before the March 12 Texas primary.
148) The primary reason for the adoption of this life-style is the attitude to the economic rewards of work.
149) Holtzman brought him down in a fierce primary battle that focused on his age.
150) An exception to the protection of the 1954 Act was licensed premises where the primary purpose was to sell alcohol.