0 an action, situation, or decision that has already happened and can be used as a reason why a similar action or decision should be performed or made:
There are several precedents for promoting people who don't have formal qualifications.
Some politicians fear that agreeing to the concession would set a dangerous precedent.
Would it be breaking with precedent for the bride to make a speech?
The judgment on pension rights has established/set a precedent.
1 a previous action, situation, or decision that can be used as a reason or example for a similar action or decision at a later time:
2 a previous action or decision that can be used as a reason for allowing something else:
The ruling can serve as a precedent to challenge other similar cases.
A judgement against the fund could set a precedent for compensation payments to more of its 6,000 investors.
This is an experiment without precedent in economic history.
a bad/dangerous/good precedent This law sets a very dangerous precedent for all businesses.
a legal precedent
I worry about giving into her demands because it then sets a precedent.
This decision set an important legal precedent for other countries.
Speaking bodies appeared in literary entertainments as well, and from these materials we might glean interpretive strategies of, or precedents for, these bodily texts.
Consequently, those descriptions often came to have normative qualities as rules, laws, or precedents.
How is it, exactly, that precedents constrain future decisions?
The precedents they set would show the way and smooth the path for other national liberation movements.
Applying this analysis to precedents, the ratio would provide the basis for the first-order part of the protected reason.
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