0 the condition of being dealt with before other things or of being considered more important than other things: --
1 the condition of being dealt with before other things or of being considered more important than other things: --
What takes precedence here, environmental cost or consumer convenience?
2 the fact that something is more important than other things and should be dealt with first: --
Nevertheless, the phonological literature provides some precedence for the proposal.
In addition, giving charity to the poor of one's own city takes precedence over giving charity to the poor of another city.
The perception of temporal precedence requires a corresponding temporal ordering of perceptions and the direction of time is always the direction of causation.
Moreover, there is a virtually identical rule for every level of precedence.
Economic and political motives seemed to take precedence over humanitarian considerations.
To avoid further ambiguity, operators with the same precedence must have the same associativity.
The binop function looks for an expression with higher precedence followed by a sequence of operators and expressions.
Note that the temporal operators have higher precedence than the logical operators.