0 existing or happening before something else, or before a particular time:
1 more important:
2 a man who is in charge of a priory or who is second in charge of an abbey
3 coming before in time, order, or importance:
4 existing or happening before something else:
Operating earnings were $71 million, compared with a loss of $111 million in the prior year.
Board members denied any prior knowledge of an executive compensation agreement.
Do not publish these figures without prior authorization from the Board.
Applicants should have prior experience of the pharmaceutical sector.
give/receive prior notice (of sth) According to the law, the finance ministry should have been given prior notice, which it did not get.
5 before something else:
It is vital that boards, management, and shareholders fully appreciate the risks and rewards prior to any merger.
She was vice president of business operations for three years prior to becoming commissioner.
You can only withdraw money from this account by prior arrangement with the bank.
It's a pretty steep learning curve when you're thrown into a job with no prior experience.
We reserve the right to make changes to the schedule without prior notice.
Due to a prior engagement Mr Richards is unable to attend.
Both uniform and normal priors are used in the model, respectively, to see the effect of priors on posterior inference.
We use non-informative normal (0, 10) priors for all transformed parameters.
Because now all priors are uniform over specified intervals, the procedure is now equivalent to constrained maximum likelihood.
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