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What is "in the first place"

Wiktionary
in the first place

adv. (context sequence idiomatic English) to begin with; earlier; first; at the start

WordNet
in the first place

  1. adv. before now; "why didn't you tell me in the first place?" [syn: earlier, in the beginning, to begin with, originally]

  2. of primary import; "this is primarily a question of economics"; "it was in the first place a local matter" [syn: primarily] [ant: secondarily]