Usually means: Order of importance or priority.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word precedence:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. precedence: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. precedence: Merriam-Webster
  3. precedence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. precedence: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. precedence: Collins English Dictionary
  6. precedence: Vocabulary.com
  7. Precedence, precedence: Wordnik
  8. precedence: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. precedence: Wiktionary
  10. precedence: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. precedence: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. precedence: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. precedence: Dictionary.com
  14. precedence: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Precedence (disambiguation), Precedence (solitaire), Precedence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Precedence: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. precedence: Rhymezone
  18. Precedence: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. precedence: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. precedence: FreeDictionary.org
  21. precedence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. precedence: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. precedence: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Precedence: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. precedence: Legal dictionary
  6. Precedence: Financial dictionary
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. precedence: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Webopedia (No longer online)
  3. precedence: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. precedence: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Precedence: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The state of preceding in importance or priority.
noun:  Precedent.

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