1 the period in your life when you are most active or successful:
2 the symbol ( ' ) used, for example, to represent feet in measurements:
Prime is used to designate units in mathematics.
3 to tell someone something that will prepare them for a particular situation:
5 to prepare someone or something for the next stage in a process:
The land is considered prime real estate that could eventually be used for homes.
8 a rating (= measurement of how good something is) given to a loan to show how much of a risk there is that the loan will not be paid back. A Prime-1 rating means that the risk is very low. A Prime-2 or Prime-3 rating means that the risk is higher:
Issuers rated Prime-1 have a superior ability for repayment of senior short-term debt obligations.
9 the period in your life or your job when you are most active or successful:
10 the lowest rate of interest that banks charge their best customers for loans over a short period and that is used for calculating the interest rates on other types of loan:
11 to prepare someone or something for a particular situation:
I was well primed for the meeting and gave a very successful presentation.
The company is primed to move ahead with its public offering.
12 to provide money, encouragement, ideas, etc. to help something get started:
Though I'd like to know more about Spanish culture, this was not my prime motivation for doing the course.
The cottage is in a prime spot with a view of the lake and a private jetty.
Pretheoretically speaking, the difference between sonorants and obstruents, whatever its reality at the level of melodic primes, has a number of syllable-relevant manifestations.
More importantly, in all these experiments one intervening filler item was introduced between primes and targets to preclude lexical and discourse influences between them.
Nonetheless, participants were sensitive to the gender information carried by the related constituents that were used as primes.
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