Premier vs Beginning - What's the difference?
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Foremost; first or highest in quality or degree.
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(politics, UK, Westminster system) The leader of the government in parliament and leader of the cabinet.
# (politics, UK parliament) The prime minister.
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# (politics, Australia, Canada, South Africa) The government leader in parliament and leader of cabinet in a state or provincial parliamentary system.
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#* 1986 , R. Kenneth Carty, National Politics and Community in Canada ,
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#* 2011 , Jennifer Curtin, Marian Sawer, 4: Oceania, Gretchen Bauer, Manon Tremblay (editors), ''Women in Executive Power: A Global Overview ,
(politics, non-Westminster) The government leader in a legislative congress or leader of a government-level administrative body; the head of government.
* 1983 , Guo Zhou, China & the World , Volume 4, Beijing Review,
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* 2008 , Steffen W. Schmidt, Mack C. Shelley, Barbara A. Bardes, American Government & Politics Today ,
(nautical, slang) The first lieutenant or other second-in-command officer of a ship.
To perform, display or exhibit for the first time.
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* 2000 , W. Royal Stokes, Living the Jazz Life: Conversations With Forty Musicians About Their Careers in Jazz ,
* 2010 , Murry R. Nelson, The Rolling Stones: A Musical Biography ,
(uncountable) The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states.
That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
That which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source.
The initial portion of some extended thing.
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, title= (informal) Of or relating to the first portion of some extended thing.
Premier is a related term of beginning.
As nouns the difference between premier and beginning
is that premier is prime minister while beginning is (uncountable) the act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states.As a verb beginning is
.As an adjective beginning is
(informal) of or relating to the first portion of some extended thing.premier
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Adjective
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- This failure, for a team associated with one of the premier Australian Rules Football teams with the longest of traditions, is truly enormous.
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- If they?d followed the advice they had received more carefully, they would have paired up with John Fairfax Holdings, later Fairfax Media, Australia?s premier independent media company.
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- South Africa?s golfing greats battle it out on one of the country?s premier courses.
See also
* preeminent, primary, primeNoun
(en noun) (wikipedia premier)page 910,
- Mr. Gladstone had literally no option. Not to coerce the Lords was to coerce the Commons to continue purchase in spite of their repeated votes for its abolition, and this the Premier had as little the power as the will to do.
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- More surprising than the company?s activities and interests were those of the premier of Ontario, Mitchell Hepburn.
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- The major concern of most of the premiers who attended the 1887 conference was, as Macdonald well understood, to put pressure upoon Ottawa to amend the B.N.A. Act to increase the subsidies paid to the provinces by tying them to current population levels rather than those of 1860.
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- John Forrest had dominated the fledgling state of Western Australia, serving as premier for the previous decade.
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- In 1890 it was South Australian Premier Charles Cameron Kingston who first proposed a system of compulsory conciliation and arbitration to deal with industrial unrest.
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- In 2009 Kristina Keneally became Labor premier in NSW in similar circumstances to her predecessors in Western Australia and Victoria - a Labor government that was in deep trouble because of mismanagement and corruption scandals.
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- This shows that our policy of strengthening friendly ties with Africa as developed by Chairman Mao Zedong and Premier Zhou Enlai is a correct one and that it has won popular support in Africa.
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- Actual decision-making power in China resides in the state?s executive organs and in the CCP. At the national level the top government executive organ is the State Council, which is led by the premier .
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- So, in the case of Russia and some other states, the head of state is the president (who is elected) and who then can name the premier' and the cabinet ministers. The intent of this system is for the president to be popularly elected and to exercise political leadership, while the ' premier runs the everyday operations of government and leads the legislative power.
Usage notes
Often capitalised, especially when used as a title. In British English, prime minister and premier''''' are interchangeable, while in Australia and Canada, the federal leader is the prime minister and the state/provincial leaders are ' premier s. The term prime minister is commonly a synonym also in non-Westminster system contextsSynonyms
* (parliamentary leader of government and leader of cabinet in a national parliament) prime minister, first minister * (parliamentary leader of government and leader of cabinet in a state or provincial parliament) first minister * (head of government in a non-Westminster system) prime minister * (second-in-command on a ship) first lieutenant, first mateSee also
* premiere * king, queen, president * governor * first ministerVerb
(en verb)- The composer invited all his friends when they premiered the movie he orchestrated, we got to see it before anyone but the crew.
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- Beethoven at first promised Schuppanzigh the right to premier' Opus 127, but Linke, cellist in Schuppanzigh?s Quartet, had also received Beethoven?s permission to ' premier the work at a special benefit concert for himself.
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- So what I want to do is try to premier the new piece with the other piece, and have just a big splash in the city.
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- To premier the record and to show that they were still able to perform, the Stones made a surprise appearance at the New Musical Express Poll Winners Concert on May 12 in Wembley Stadium.
beginning
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Alternative forms
* begynnynge (obsolete)Noun
- The author describes the protagonist's youth in the beginning of the story
- The house you want is down at the beginning of the street
Synonyms
* (act of doing that which begins anything) commencing, start, starting * element, embryo, rudiment * (that which begins or originates something) origin, source, start, commencement * (initial portion of some extended thing) head, startAntonyms
* (act of doing that which begins anything) conclusion, endDerived terms
* a good beginning makes a good ending * beginning of day * in the beginningVerb
(head)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning ; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.}}
Adjective
(-)- in the beginning paragraph of the chapter
- in the beginning section of the course