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precedence   (TTS Sound)

The noun precedence has 3 senses

• precedence, precedency, priority -- (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")


• priority, antecedence, antecedency, anteriority, precedence, precedency -- (preceding in time)


• precession, precedence, precedency -- (the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony))