noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
accord
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Where the foot passenger steps on to the limits before the vehicle reaches them, the driver must accord precedence .
give
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The practical effect is that that gives them precedence of speaking in Parliament.
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A decision obviously had to be made as to which of these missions should be given precedence .
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Moreover, children gave precedence to the matching rule in situations where it conflicted with another rule.
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The citation order now gives precedence to processes, such as circulation control and cataloguing, rather than to types of libraries. 6.
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This has usually meant giving precedence to private sector economic growth rather than other priorities such as social welfare.
take
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Defining abuse can allow the relative power of the carer to take precedence over the plight of the older person.
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Should stability take precedence over personal freedoms?
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This is because of his obsession with golf and how it takes precedence over everything else.
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California law allows residents to carry the spray, and city officials said state law would take precedence .
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If there is conflict the Companies Act takes precedence .
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Statute takes precedence over contract and other legal obligations.
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Husbands are usually higher earners than their wives and their jobs or carers take precedence over those of women.
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Males were above females and age took precedence over youth.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But for those most concerned, other issues have taken precedence .
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California law allows residents to carry the spray, and city officials said state law would take precedence .
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If not, should precedence be given to new inputs or to the accumulated current state?
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If the total resources are insufficient to meet all needs then how does one choose the needs that should take precedence ?
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The biological fact of her femininity took precedence over serious critical evaluations of her work.
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This possibility of precedence confusion can be dealt with as follows.
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Ultimately, the democratic process may take precedence over democracy itself.
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Where the two aims were in conflict, the former was to take precedence .