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As adjectives the difference between primary and premier

is that primary is the first in a group or series while premier is foremost; first or highest in quality or degree.

As nouns the difference between primary and premier

is that primary is a primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party while premier is the leader of the government in parliament and leader of the cabinet.

As verbs the difference between primary and premier

is that primary is to take part in a primary election while premier is to perform, display or exhibit for the first time.

primary

English

(wikipedia primary)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • The first in a group or series.
    • Children attend primary school, and teenagers attend secondary school.
  • * Bishop Pearson
    • the church of Christ, in its primary institution
  • * John Locke
    • These I call original, or primary , qualities of body.
  • Main; principal; placed ahead of others.
    • Preferred stock has primary claim on dividends, ahead of common stock.
  • (geology) Earliest formed; fundamental.
  • (chemistry) Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
  • (label) idiopathic

    • Derived terms

    * primarily * primary care * primary color, primary colour * primary producer * primary research * primary school * primary source

    See also

    * first * primus inter pares * secondary (2) * tertiary (3) * quaternary (4)

    Noun

    (primaries)
  • 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.
  • A primary school.
  • * 2001 , David Woods, Martyn Cribb, Effective LEAs and school improvement
    • Excellence in Cities offers a further development of this approach, whereby secondary schools operate with small clusters of primaries as mini-EAZs.
  • (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird.
  • A primary colour.
  • * 2003 , Julie A Jacko, Andrew Sears, The human-computer interaction handbook
    • By adding and subtracting the three primaries , cyan, yellow, and magenta are produced. These are called subtractive primaries.
  • (electronics) A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is magnetically coupled to a secondary

    • Verb

  • (US) To take part in a primary election.
  • (US, politics) 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

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    premier

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Foremost; first or highest in quality or degree.
  • * 2004 , Philip Moore, Scouting an Anthropology of Sport'', ''Anthropologica , Volume 46, Number 1, Canadian Anthropology Society, page 40,
    • This failure, for a team associated with one of the premier Australian Rules Football teams with the longest of traditions, is truly enormous.
  • * 2011 , Kate Askew, Dot. Bomb Australia , Read How You Want, page 70,
    • 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.
  • * 2011 , Pippa de Bruyn, Keith Bain, Frommer?s South Africa , 7th Edition, unnumbered page,
    • South Africa?s golfing greats battle it out on one of the country?s premier courses.

    See also

    * preeminent, primary, prime

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia premier)
  • (politics, UK, Westminster system) The leader of the government in parliament and leader of the cabinet.
  • # (politics, UK parliament) The prime minister.
  • #* 1871 July 29, “Our Tyrant”'', '' , Volume 303, Issues 9308-9315, 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.
  • # (politics, Australia, Canada, South Africa) The government leader in parliament and leader of cabinet in a state or provincial parliamentary system.
  • #* 1974 , Irving M. Abella, On Strike; Six Key Labour Struggles in Canada, 1919-1949 , page 96,
  • More surprising than the company?s activities and interests were those of the premier of Ontario, Mitchell Hepburn.
  • #* 1986 , R. Kenneth Carty, National Politics and Community in Canada , page 116,
  • 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.
  • #* 2007 , Patrick Moray Weller, Cabinet Government in Australia, 1901-2006: Practice, Principles, Performance , page 1,
  • John Forrest had dominated the fledgling state of Western Australia, serving as premier for the previous decade.
  • #* 2009 , Andrew Stewart, John Spoehr (editor), Chapter 16: Industrial Relations'', ''State of South Australia: From Crisis to Prosperity? , page 302,
  • 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.
  • #* 2011 , Jennifer Curtin, Marian Sawer, 4: Oceania, Gretchen Bauer, Manon Tremblay (editors), ''Women in Executive Power: A Global Overview , page 56,
  • 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.
  • (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, page 13,
    • 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.
  • * 1998 , , Volume 16, page 61,
    • 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 .
  • * 2008 , Steffen W. Schmidt, Mack C. Shelley, Barbara A. Bardes, American Government & Politics Today , page 470,
    • 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.
  • (nautical, slang) The first lieutenant or other second-in-command officer of a ship.

    • 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 contexts

    Synonyms

    * (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 mate

    See also

    * premiere * king, queen, president * governor * first minister

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To perform, display or exhibit for the first time.
    • The composer invited all his friends when they premiered the movie he orchestrated, we got to see it before anyone but the crew.
  • * 1998 , John Herschel Baron, Intimate Music: A History of the Idea of Chamber Music , page 231,
    • 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.
  • * 2000 , W. Royal Stokes, Living the Jazz Life: Conversations With Forty Musicians About Their Careers in Jazz , page 97,
    • 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.
  • * 2010 , Murry R. Nelson, The Rolling Stones: A Musical Biography , page 56,
    • 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.
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