PRIMACY


Meaning of PRIMACY in English

noun

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■ VERB

assert

From Hegel he derives his basic manner of thinking, asserting the primacy of experience.

Also, the parent subtly asserts primacy .

This concrete universal unites universality and particularity and asserts the primacy of experience.

give

Thus they have been re-encoded into long-term memory and this gives rise to the primacy effect.

By defining interest in terms of power, Realism gives primacy to political considerations.

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The two companies are struggling for primacy in the software market.

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Also, the parent subtly asserts primacy .

Britain's imperial primacy required the subjugation of other cultures and the dishonouring of their gods.

Despite the primacy of its influence, socialisation in the early years of life is not confined to the family, however.

Insisting on the primacy of language does not however answer the question how the skills of language-using should be taught.

It also enjoyed primacy in quality and efficiency, as it still does.

Recent ideas about language use and learning insist on the primacy of communicative activities in the classroom.

The primacy of monuments and monolithic sculpture in the new Communist epoch was acknowledged and debated.

This choice allows us to accord primacy to the authority's interpretation, while still preserving judicial control.

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