Usually means: Coming or occurring before something.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word preceding:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. preceding: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. preceding: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. preceding: Collins English Dictionary
  4. preceding: Vocabulary.com
  5. Preceding, preceding: Wordnik
  6. preceding: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. preceding: Wiktionary
  8. preceding: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. preceding: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. preceding: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Preceding, preceding: Dictionary.com
  12. preceding: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Preceding: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. preceding: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. preceding: Rhymezone
  16. Preceding: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. preceding: Free Dictionary
  18. preceding: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. preceding: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  20. preceding: Dictionary/thesaurus

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. preceding: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See precede as well.)

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adjective:  Occurring before or in front of something else, in time, place, rank or sequence.

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