English-German translations for primary

• primär
  Die politische Union ist unser primäres Ziel. A political union is our primary goal.
  Aber es ist sicherlich nicht seine primäre Aufgabe. But that is certainly not their primary task.
  Die primäre Verantwortung liegt bei den Mitgliedstaaten. Primary responsibility lies with the Member States.
• erstrangig
  Die regionale Zusammenarbeit und das Engagement des Ostseeraums selbst sind von erstrangiger Bedeutung. The areas own cooperation and priorities are of primary importance.
  Dieses Prinzip ist doch für das ordnungsgemäße Funktionieren des Gemeinsamen Marktes von erstrangiger Bedeutung. This principle is of primary importance as far as the proper functioning of the single market is concerned.
  Sie stellen einen Faktor von erstrangiger Bedeutung dar, durch den der Handelsaustausch zwischen der Gemeinschaft und Drittländern gefördert wird. They constitute a factor of primary importance which assists trade between the Community and third countries.
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• idiopathisch
• ursprünglich
  Die Beschäftigungspolitik war der ursprüngliche Anlass und das zentrale Ziel der Lissabon-Strategie, doch verkommt sie jetzt zu einem Anhängsel. Although it was employment policy that first prompted the Lisbon Strategy and constituted its primary goal, that is now becoming no more than an appendix to it.
• Vorwahl die
  Es wird keine Wahlkampagnen geben, die wir im Fernsehen verfolgen können, und keine Kandidaten, die wir in einer Vorwahl nominieren. Es gibt keine Personen, die zur Wahl stehen. There is no election campaign to follow on TV; there are no candidates for primary selection; there are no individuals we can vote for.

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