"precedent" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

precedent sustantivo

sustantivo + precedent

Kolokacji: 4

court precedent • condition precedent • abortion precedent • Senate precedent

precedent + verbo

Kolokacji: 8

precedent exists • precedent suggests • precedent establishes • precedent sets • precedent applies • ...

verbo + precedent

Kolokacji: 10

set a precedent • establish a precedent • cite precedents • take precedent • create a precedent • ...

Kolokacji: 3

Grup znaczeniowych: 2

Kolokacji: 8

1. set a precedent = ustanawiać precedens set a precedent

2. establish a precedent = ustanów precedens establish a precedent

3. take precedent = wymagaj precedensu take precedent

4. create a precedent = stworzyć precedens create a precedent

5. follow the precedent = przestrzegaj precedensu follow the precedent

6. break precedent = precedens przerwy break precedent

7. ignore precedent = zignoruj precedens ignore precedent

8. defy precedent = zignoruj precedens defy precedent

Then, on Friday, June 5, the Council defied both the Mayor and precedent by adopting a $34 billion budget.
Wilder defied precedent by seeking to serve as lieutenant governor for an extended period.
The scoreboard was hinting at a story that defied historical precedent, if not common sense.
The all-or-nothing argument defies not only precedent but common sense.
He defied convention and precedent by taking Dirk Nowitzki, a 7-foot German, who is now one of the league's rising stars.
Others, however, including several specialists in legal ethics, say the judge may have acted with a heavy hand but that the gravity of the circumstances defy conduct codes and precedent.
Railroad officials said they could not have expected that the engineers would defy law and precedent by walking out.
But the growth of a dependent class of teen-age mothers defies precedent and solution.
Part of the "naïve fable" was that the collapse of the Soviet Union would peaceably defy historical precedent.
To run from Chicago: Barack Obama, who will defy precedent by basing his reëlection campaign outside the Beltway.

(2) cite, explain

Kolokacji: 2

adjetivo + precedent

Kolokacji: 50

legal precedent • dangerous precedent • historical precedent • bad precedent • important precedent • ...

preposición + precedent

Kolokacji: 11

without precedent • of precedent • to precedent • with precedent • on precedent • ...

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