transcription, транскрипция: [ praɪməri, AM -meri ]
( primaries)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
You use primary to describe something that is very important. ( FORMAL )
That’s the primary reason the company’s share price has held up so well...
His misunderstanding of language was the primary cause of his other problems...
= main
ADJ : ADJ n
2.
Primary education is given to pupils between the ages of 5 and 11. ( BRIT; in AM, use elementary )
Britain did not introduce compulsory primary education until 1880...
...primary teachers.
ADJ : ADJ n
3.
Primary is used to describe something that occurs first.
It is not the primary tumour that kills, but secondary growths elsewhere in the body...
ADJ : ADJ n
4.
A primary or a primary election is an election in an American state in which people vote for someone to become a candidate for a political office. Compare general election .
...the 1968 New Hampshire primary...
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