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Phrases 111
- primary schoolA formal, obligatory kind of school that typically begins with nursery school or first grade and ends at fifth or sixth grade.
- primary careThe medical attention that a patient receives upon first contact with a healthcare system; either a general practitioner or the A&E or ER department of a hospital.
- primary sourceAn original work, especially one by a notable author whose work is now the subject of commentaries (secondary sources).
- primary educationThe basic schooling given to children up to the age of puberty, including reading, writing, and basic mathematics.
- primary keyIn the design of a database table, the primary key (abbreviated PK) is selected among the non-empty set of candidate keys. The PK is a column (or an irreducible group of columns) able to identify every row of the table.
- primary electionA preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party.
- primary schoolsplural of primary school: A formal, obligatory kind of school that typically begins with nursery school or first grade and ends at fifth or sixth grade.
- primary school student
- primary productionThe organic matter produced from carbon dioxide by photosynthesis.
- primary colorAny of three colors which, when added to or subtracted from others in different amounts, can generate all other colors
- primary sourcesplural of primary source: An original work, especially one by a notable author whose work is now the subject of commentaries (secondary sources).
- Primary objective
- primary industryAn industry that processes raw materials for conversion by secondary industry into goods or services sold by tertiary industry to provide goods or services to consumers.
- primary sectorThe sector of the economy that principally produces raw materials for use by other sectors.
- primary colourAny of three colours which, when added to or subtracted from others in different amounts, can generate all other colours.
- primary marketThe part of the financial markets that deals with the issuance of new securities.
- primary researchResearch that involves the collection of previously ungathered data, rather than the analysis of that which is already available.
- pre-primaryTaking place before primary school.
- primary dataData that has been compiled for a specific purpose, and has not been collated or merged with other data.
- primary energyEnergy in a form that has not been processed or is not processed before use.
- primary stressThe stronger of two degrees of stress in the pronunciation of a word.
- primary residenceThe dwelling where a person usually lives. A person may have only one primary residence at any given time, which is used for legal purposes such as determining where a person votes or pays taxes.
- primary goodsGoods which are presumed to be desired by all rational individuals.
- primary idealGiven a commutative ring R, any ideal I such that for any a,b ∈ R, if ab ∈ I then either b ∈ I or aⁿ ∈ I for some integer n > 0.
- primary alcoholAny alcohol of general formula R-CH₂-OH
Compound words 10
- preprimaryPertaining to, or taking place in the time before a primary election.
- primarinessThe quality or state of being primary, or first in time, act, or intention.
- superprimaryA primary election for president that takes place on the same day across a wide geographic area covering many voters.
- postprimaryAfter primary school.
- pseudoprimaryApparently, but not actually, primary.
- subprimaryBelow the primary level; less than primary.
- circumprimaryThat surrounds the primary star of a binary star system
- coprimaryAny of several cases of an infectious disease that occur in a group in a relatively short time.
- megaprimaryA primary election for president that takes place on the same day across a wide geographic area covering many voters.
- nonprimaryNot primary.