precedence

Academic Word List, sublist 6.

About 3.40 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The state of preceding in importance or priority.

   Family takes precedence over work, in an emergency.

2. noun Precedent.

Similar words

anteriority priority precedency antecedence antecedency precession prioritized first primacy previous

Often followed by

over of in to and for is constraints as

Word family

precede preceded precedences precedent precedes preceding