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n. The fact, state, or right of preceding; priority: Applications arriving first will receive precedence.

n. Priority claimed or received because of preeminence or superiority: The company asserted its precedence as the leading manufacturer of microchips.

n. A ceremonial order of rank or preference, especially as observed on formal occasions: Recipients of military honors were called in order of precedence—highest ranking officers first.

n. The state of preceding in importance or priority.

n. The act or state of preceding or going before in order of time; priority.

n. The act or state of going or being before in rank or dignity, or the place of honor; right to a more honorable place; superior rank.

n. The act of going before; specifically, the right of preceding others in public or private ceremonies; the right to a more honorable place in public processions or assemblies, or in the formalities of social life; social superiority; advantage in rank. In many countries precedence is a matter of strict regulation. See order of precedence, below.

n. Prior place; superior position; position indicative of superior rank.

n. Previous occurrence, or existence before; priority in time.

n. That which goes before; a preceding act or speech.

n. status established in order of importance or urgency

n. the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony)

n. preceding in time

"Nations confront the problematic tension between giving their – people-citizens-however you want to call it – a certain precedence, which is deeply embedded in the very idea of the nation-state however un-P.C. it sounds, while not sacrificing their broader humanity regarding the world."

activity    earliness   

order of precedence    personal precedence    to take precedence of    patent of precedence   

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priority    etiquette    propriety