Usually means: Coming or occurring before something.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word preceding:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. preceding: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. preceding: Merriam-Webster
  3. preceding: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. preceding: Collins English Dictionary
  5. preceding: Vocabulary.com
  6. Preceding, preceding: Wordnik
  7. preceding: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. preceding: Wiktionary
  9. preceding: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. preceding: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. preceding: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Preceding, preceding: Dictionary.com
  13. preceding: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Preceding: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. preceding: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. preceding: Rhymezone
  17. Preceding: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. preceding: FreeDictionary.org
  19. preceding: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. preceding: TheFreeDictionary.com

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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