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paramountcy

/par-uh-mount/US // ˈpær əˌmaʊnt //UK // (ˈpærəˌmaʊnt) //

崇高性,崇高的地位,崇高地位,崇高感

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : chief in importance or impact; supreme; preeminent: a point of paramount significance.
    • : above others in rank or authority; superior in power or jurisdiction.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a supreme ruler; overlord.

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Examples

  • A desire for self-reliance also keeps coal paramount in China’s energy mix, says Gørild Heggelund, a senior research fellow at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Norway who studies China’s energy and climate policy.

  • It’s paramount that corporations develop a stakeholder mindset because those stakeholders are essential to corporations’ survival.

  • These hunting and fishing opportunities all depend on healthy habitat—in which old growth forest is paramount—to support the Tongass' rich ecosystem.

  • Ensuring an opportunity for the people of Wisconsin to exercise their votes should be our paramount concern.

  • Human knowledge is still paramount to steering search campaigns in the right direction and picking up on the nuances that machines miss.

  • With the appearance of British paramountcy at the Cape came a hint of law and order, of progress and its accompaniment—taxation.

  • He would have tolerated their “gentility nonsense” if they would have acknowledged his paramountcy.