Precedence
Precedence noun - The right to one's attention before other things considered less important.
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Synonyms for Precedence
Starting and precedence are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Starting" instead a noun "Precedence".
Starting
Starting noun - A turn to be a starter (in a game at the beginning).
Precedence and starting are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Precedence" instead a noun "Starting".
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The first episode had "Cast in Order of Precedence" starting with the kings, and then things like "Cast in Order of Reverence" for the episode where Edmund becomes an Archbishop.
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Starting from the New series (with precedence in the Eighth Doctor Expanded Universe), he becomes definitively bisexual, but his queerness is often just used as part of the general joke about how weird and outrageous he is (though always affectionately, never with contempt).
Source: Discount Lesbians
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