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precedence

[pres-i-duhns, pri-seed-ns] / ˈprɛs ɪ dəns, prɪˈsid ns /


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U.S. companies spent an estimated $23.5 billion on call and contact center outsourcing in 2025, according to market research firm Precedence Research.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

A recent study released by Precedence Research reveals that the U.S. virtual health care market was evaluated at $5.6 billion in 2022 and is expected to top 76 billion by 2032.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 28, 2023

The global stationary energy storage market is estimated to jump in value to roughly $224 billion by the end of the decade from just over $31 billion in 2021, according to Precedence Research.

From Reuters • Jun. 8, 2023

Precedence will be given to making interest payments on government bonds, an administration official said yesterday.

From BusinessWeek • Jul. 29, 2011

She has the Precedence before all other Ladies, and only yields it to the Princesses of the Blood.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von




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