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Taking Precedence Crossword Clue

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adjective

• preceding all others in time or space or degree

• highest in pitch or chief among parts or voices or instruments or orchestra sections

noun

• the first or highest in an ordering or series

• the first element in a countable series

• the time at which something is supposed to begin

• the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed at first of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate)

• an honours degree of the highest class

• the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving

adverb

• before anything else

• the initial time

• before another in time, space, or importance

• prominently forward

adjective satellite

• serving to begin

• ranking above all others

• serving to set in motion

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noun

• The Cyrillic letter Ь/ь, which in Old Church Slavonic represented a short (or "reduced") front vowel, and in modern languages serves to denote a soft (palatalized) consonant.

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