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prevailing
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prevailing (Current), adjective abundant, accepted, accustomary, accustomed, all-embracing, bourgeois, catholic, characteristic, colloquial, common, commonplace, comprehensive, conformable, contemporary, conventional, current, customary, diffuse, dominant, epidemic, everyday, extensive, familiar, frequent, general, generally accepted, global, habitual, in vogue, latest, normal, pandemic, popular, predominant, prevalent, rampant, regular, rife, stock, sweeping, typical, universal, up-to-date, usual, vernacular, well-known, widely accepted, widespread, wonted, workaday, worldwide
Associated concepts: prevailing conditions, prevailing rate, prevailing rate of interest
prevailing (Having superior force), adjective authoritative, chief, commanding, conquering, defeating, determining, directing, dominant, effective, effectual, efficacious, forceful, governing, heading, hegemonic, hegemonical, influential, leading, mighty, moving, operative, overcoming, overruling, persuasive, potent, powerful, predominant, preponderant, preponderating, puissant, ruling, strong, successful, supreme, triumphal, triumphant, unvanquished, victorious, weighty, winning
Associated concepts: prevailing party
See also: accustomed, cardinal, coercion, common, compulsion, conventional, convincing, current, customary, dominant, familiar, force, forcible, general, influential, leading, master, ordinary, orthodox, outstanding, popular, potent, powerful, predominant, prevalent, prime, principal, regular, rife, successful, typical, usual


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