In emergency medicine, treating life-threatening injuries takes precedence over less urgent complaints when resources are scarce.
在急诊医学中，当资源稀缺时，治疗危及生命的伤情优先于不那么紧急的主诉。
Which choice best defines “precedence”?
D — The condition of being more important than something else. “precedence” means the condition of being more important than something else.
Which word means “the condition of being more important than something else”?
C — precedence. “precedence” means the condition of being more important than something else.
precedence — the condition of being more important than something else. In Chinese: 优先，优先权.
precedence is pronounced /ˈpresɪdəns/.
In emergency medicine, treating life-threatening injuries takes precedence over less urgent complaints when resources are scarce. (在急诊医学中，当资源稀缺时，治疗危及生命的伤情优先于不那么紧急的主诉。)
priority, preeminence, primacy — all close in meaning to precedence (the condition of being more important than something else).
subordination, inferiority — each the opposite of precedence (the condition of being more important than something else).
Yes. precedence is on the SAT Prep Basic list — the everyday academic words the SAT assumes you already have. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.