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put ahead

put ahead verb: to treat something as more important than something else.

Verb

put ahead (third-person singular simple present puts ahead, present participle putting ahead, simple past and past participle put ahead)

  1. To treat something as more important than something else.

Forms of put ahead

third-person singular presentputs ahead
present participleputting ahead
past participleput ahead
pastput ahead

Questions about put ahead

What does put ahead mean?
Put ahead means to treat something as more important than something else.
What part of speech is put ahead?
Put ahead is a verb.
What is the past tense of put ahead?
The past tense of put ahead is put ahead.

Words near put ahead in the dictionary

  1. put a spoke in someone's wheel
  2. put a stop to
  3. put a stopper to
  4. put about
  5. put across
  6. put ahead
  7. put all one's eggs in one basket
  8. put an egg in one's shoe and beat it
  9. put an egg in one's shoe and beaten it
  10. put an end to
  11. put and take

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