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first-come, first-served

first-come, first-served is the alternative form of first come first served.

Meaning of first come first served

Noun

first come first served (uncountable)

  1. A service policy or distributive rule under which access to a good, service, or decision is allocated according to the chronological order of requests or arrivals, so that earlier claimants receive priority over later ones.

Questions about first-come, first-served

What is first-come, first-served the alternative form of?
First-come, first-served is the alternative form of first come first served.

Words near first-come, first-served in the dictionary

  1. first-class object
  2. first-class objects
  3. first-class value
  4. first-class values
  5. first-come first-served
  6. first-come, first-served
  7. first-come-first-served
  8. First-day
  9. first-day cover
  10. first-day covers
  11. first-degree

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Adapted from Wiktionary: first-come, first-served (page history and authors); first come first served (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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