English-French translations for primary

• primaire
  · utilisation équilibrée de différents types de combustibles primaires · balanced use of various types of primary fuels
  Oui, nous avons des droits au niveau de la législation primaire. Yes, we have rights in the primary legislation.
  Cela doit être clairement fixé dans le droit primaire. This needs to be clearly laid down in primary law.
• prioritaire
  Monsieur le Président, il est évident que la protection des intérêts financiers doit rester pour nous un objectif prioritaire. Mr President, the protection of financial interests must naturally continue to be one of our primary objectives.
  L'objectif prioritaire fixé au budget de l'an prochain est la lutte contre le chômage. The primary objective of next year's budget has been defined as the prevention of unemployment.
  En ce qui nous concerne, l’objectif prioritaire doit être de promouvoir la modernisation et le développement durables du secteur. As far as we are concerned, the primary objective should be to promote sustainable modernisation and development in the sector.

Definition of primary

• first or earliest in a group or series
• main; principal; chief; placed ahead of others
• Earliest formed; fundamental
• Relating to the place where a disorder or disease started to occur
• A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party
• A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible
• A primary school
• Any flight feather attached to the manus of a bird
• A primary colour
• Primary site of disease; original location or source of the disease
• A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is magnetically coupled to a secondary
• To challenge 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

Examples

• Children attend primary school, and teenagers attend secondary school.
• Preferred stock has primary claim on dividends, ahead of common stock.
• unknown primary
• most common primaries

Related words

• pre-primary
• primary school
• primary colour
• primary stress
• primary sector
• primary production
• primary sources
• primary energy
• primary care