2syllables
primaries
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Definitions ofprimaries
1noun
- A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party.
- The first year of grade school.
- A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible.
- The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system, such as a planet in relation to its satellites.
- A primary school.
- Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird.
- A primary colour.
- Primary site of disease; original location or source of the disease.
Example: "most common primaries"
- A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is magnetically coupled to a secondary
1verb
- To challenge (an incumbent sitting politician) for their political party's endorsement to run for re-election, through running a challenger campaign in a primary election, especially one that is more ideologically extreme.
- To take part in a primary election.
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