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primacy

/prahy-muh-see/US // ˈpraɪ mə si //UK // (ˈpraɪməsɪ) //

首要地位,至高无上的地位,优先权,至高无上

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural pri·ma·cies for 2, 3.

    • : the state of being first in order, rank, importance, etc.
    • : Also called primateship. English Ecclesiastics. the office, rank, or dignity of a primate.
    • : Roman Catholic Church. the jurisdiction of a bishop, as a patriarch, over other bishoprics, or the supreme jurisdiction of the pope as supreme bishop.

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Examples

  • For an industry that for a century was built on the primacy of movie theaters, the news was earth-shattering.

  • Because of the digital revolution, television advertising has lost some of its primacy.

  • Henderson says she believes there is a class of actions that benefit both the shareholders and stakeholders that have been overlooked owing to years of shareholder primacy.

  • A series of breakthrough experiments on the visual cortex of the cat, by Torsten Wiesel and David Hubel, cemented the explanatory primacy of a mapping approach to brain function in sensory systems.

  • Both sides can point to some eye-popping statistics in America, the country which is perhaps ground-zero for shareholder primacy.

  • And while abolition of the air force is unlikely, the factions that believe in the primacy of boots on the ground are influential.

  • When bourbon went corporate, tradition and quality had begun to play second fiddle to the primacy of profit.

  • Now, its descendent organizations are dedicated to advancing the 20th-century throwback notion of the primacy of the nation-state.

  • McMahon attributes a relative decline in the cultural primacy of genius to two broad forces.

  • He informs us that, when listening to records, it is the beat he hears first, that it has primacy over the melody or lyrics.

  • He was a learned man, author of several literary productions, and was offered the primacy, which he declined.

  • Athelard, who succeeded Jaenbert in 790, had the primacy restored to him.

  • In the centuries that lie before us, the primacy of the world will lie with the English People.

  • The factors that strengthen these tendencies or connections are the frequency, recency, primacy, and vividness of experience.

  • Went to M. des Billiers: he attacked me again on the primacy of jurisdiction.