English-Finnish translations for preceding

• edeltävä
  Mielestäni toimikautensa päättävä komissio on tehnyt parempaa työtä kuin mikään edeltävä komissio viime aikoina, ja kiitän sitä sen ponnisteluista. In my view, this outgoing Commission has made more positive progress than any preceding Commission in recent times and I thank him for his efforts.

Definition of preceding

• Occurring before or in front of something else, in time, place, rank or sequence

Examples

• On the preceding Monday Shobana had gone on vacation.

Related words

• precede
• precedent
• precedence
• precedents
• unprecedented
• unprecedentedly
• unprecedentedness
• precedable
• operator) precedence