- give precedence
- To accord a priority. To recognize superior importance. Kansas City Terminal Railway Co. v Central Union Trust Co. 271 US 445, 455, 70 L Ed 1028, 1033, 46 S Ct 549.
Ballentine's law dictionary. Anderson, W.S.. 1998.
give precedence
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give precedence — give priority, put before other things; prefer … English contemporary dictionary
precedence — The established system of priorities of trade in an exchange. For example, the highest bid and lowest offer have highest precedence; the first bid or first offer at a price has highest priority, and large orders have priority over smaller orders … Financial and business terms
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Precedence — • The right to enjoy a prerogative of honour before other persons Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Precedence Precedence † … Catholic encyclopedia
give way to — 1. To yield to, submit to 2. To allow to take precedence, give priority to 3. To succumb to (eg grief) • • • Main Entry: ↑give … Useful english dictionary
precedence — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ historical VERB + PRECEDENCE ▪ have, take ▪ give sb/sth ▪ You should give your schoolwork precedence … Collocations dictionary
give place — phrasal 1. : to yield precedence or superiority a house and garden of the king s giving place to few Thomas Herbert 2. : to yield by way of being succeeded or replaced fields of sugar beets … give place to wheat and grazing lands American Guide… … Useful english dictionary
give — verb Give is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑authority, ↑benefactor, ↑chart, ↑council, ↑donor, ↑index, ↑jury, ↑move, ↑nature, ↑recording, ↑religion, ↑ … Collocations dictionary
give place — 1. Withdraw, retire, recede, retreat, give way, make room. 2. Yield precedence … New dictionary of synonyms
Operator-precedence parser — An operator precedence parser is a bottom up parser that interprets an operator precedence grammar. For example, most calculators use operator precedence parsers to convert from the human readable infix notation with order of operations format… … Wikipedia
