Usually means: Comes before something else temporally.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word precedes:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. precedes: Merriam-Webster
  2. precedes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. precedes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Precedes, precedes: Wordnik
  5. precedes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. precedes: Wiktionary
  7. precedes: Dictionary.com
  8. precedes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. precedes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. precedes: Legal dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Precedes: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

(Note: See precede as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (precede)

verb:  (transitive) To go before, go in front of.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce.
verb:  (transitive) To have higher rank than (someone or something else).
noun:  Brief editorial preface (usually to an article or essay)
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