overriding priority

collocation in English

meaningsofoverridingandpriority

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overriding
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˌəʊ.vəˈraɪ.dɪŋ/us
/ˌoʊ.vɚˈraɪ.dɪŋ/
more important than ...
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priority
noun[C or U]
uk
/praɪˈɒr.ə.ti/us
/praɪˈɔːr.ə.t̬i/
something that is very important and must be dealt with before ...
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(Definition ofoverridingandpriorityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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More generally, the only policies to survive were those that were consistent with theoverridingprioritynow attached to sterling.
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The mundane tasks associated with daily living enjoy an inexplicable andoverridingpriorityin dementia care.
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Their identity as new men makes the preservation of their spiritual status theoverridingpriority.
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Which comes first, a first priority or anoverridingpriority?
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It does not have to be anoverridingpriority, but it is the first priority.
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Ouroverridingprioritynow is to bring down inflation.
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Ouroverridingpriorityis to get food to the starving.
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I am sure that he is not suggesting, however, that safety is not anoverridingpriority.
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I have tried to justify to electors on the doorstep anoverridingpriorityfor education as an expenditure and a social objective.
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He stated that this was because re-armament today is anoverridingpriority.
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That is my intention, and it will be myoverridingpriority.
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If he wants equipment, surely he has anoverridingpriorityover home production?
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So, at the beginning, housing had a priority, anoverridingpriority.
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We want a fair distribution of grant; that is ouroverridingpriorityin responding to the widespread consultation exercise.
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If keeping care home places open is theiroverridingpriority, they are sadly mistaken.
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The urgent andoverridingpriorityis to provide the graduate and specialist staff which is demanded by secondary education today.
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Having put that as anoverridingpriority, one must then consider how to mitigate the effects on the surounding population.
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But drugs are not anoverridingpriorityof equal concern to all forces.
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In particular, we regard the elimination of over-size classes as our first andoverridingpriority.
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Ouroverridingpriorityis to bear down on the disease and eliminate it as quickly as possible.
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