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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
overriding
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sb's overriding concern (=much more important than anything else)
▪ An artist's overriding concern is to achieve the highest standard possible.
the overriding priority (=the most important one)
▪ The reduction of inflation must be the Government’s overriding priority.
the overwhelming/overriding impression (=an impression that is stronger than all others)
▪ The overwhelming impression after the meeting was one of optimism.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
concern
▪ The Board's overriding concern was to deprive employees found guilty of such acts of their reinstatement rights.
▪ Thus, during these years, the overriding concern of the government in office was parliamentary survival and electoral prospects.
▪ Why this should be our only or even our overriding concern remains as opaque as ever.
▪ The government's overriding concern to ensure domestic stability ruled out the possibility of landless Emancipation.
▪ Its overriding concern is with efficient crime control.
▪ The country is asked to pay the price of the Government's overriding concern that they should not lose face.
consideration
▪ Lengthy research went on to find suitable precedents but the overriding consideration was the position of Lloyd George and the Liberals.
▪ For them, the sovereignty of the consumer was the overriding consideration.
▪ As with Frederick and Catherine, his overriding consideration was the power and well-being of the State.
▪ Chapman came to criticize the league system most for making success the overriding consideration.
▪ There may be many factors to take into account, but usually the overriding consideration is monetary.
importance
▪ If the farm has hill-grazing rights, these may assume an overriding importance in relation to other factors.
▪ The notion of the overriding importance of applicability of learning is born of long immersion in community education.
▪ The overriding importance of death and disease in the seventeenth century have seldom found such a chronicler.
▪ Within their own spheres, they were of overriding importance.
need
▪ The overriding need is to ensure these park trees are not merely protected but replanted.
▪ There were two overriding needs which had to be met by the Roman road network - military and economic.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an overriding concern about safety
▪ an overriding concern to secure business efficiency.
▪ The overriding need here is to end the civil war.
▪ The overriding theme of the conference is the need to reduce Third World debt.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Ellis, according to his successor Beto, had two overriding overt concerns.
▪ On 8 April 1962, when ninety percent of metropolitan voters approved the Evian Accords, that overriding objective was finally achieved.
▪ Our overriding priority is to provide our shareholders with a satisfactory financial return on their investment.
▪ Strangely enough, sport is not the overriding tradition of the West Indies.
▪ The overriding priority, therefore, was to ensure that the structure of the Party should guarantee its ideological purity.
▪ This is not, however, to suggest that assessment considerations should be the overriding factor in the development of qualifications.
▪ Thus, during these years, the overriding concern of the government in office was parliamentary survival and electoral prospects.
▪ Unless there was some overriding issue of national security, Lord Young should have acknowledged that and published.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overriding

Override \O`ver*ride"\, v. t. [imp. Overrode; p. p. Overridden, Overrode, Overrid; p. pr. & vb. n. Overriding.] [AS. offer[=i]dan.]

  1. To ride over or across; to ride upon; to trample down.

    The carter overridden with [i. e., by] his cart.
    --Chaucer.

  2. To suppress; to destroy; to supersede; to annul; to nullify; as, one law overrides another; to override a veto.

  3. Hence: To countermand; to overrule; as, a supervisor may override the decision of a subordinate.

  4. To replace (one system with another); as, the pilot overrode the automatic pilot and took manual control of the airplane.

  5. To ride beyond; to pass; to outride. [Obs.]

    I overrode him on the way.
    --Shak.

  6. To ride too much; to ride, as a horse, beyond its strength.

Wiktionary
overriding

vb. (present participle of override English)

WordNet
overriding

adj. having superior power and influence; "the predominant mood among policy-makers is optimism" [syn: paramount, predominant, predominate, preponderant, preponderating]

Usage examples of "overriding".

Then Adams put the issue squarely where it belonged, saying, in essence, that all such stories of slave masters and their slave women were metaphors for the overriding sin of slavery itself.

And she has an overriding compulsion to seek Boolean with or without me.

But even setting that aside, the brutal, overriding truth was that Chinas economy was based on exports of everything from guns to teething rings.

We hoped that the Commonwealth citizenry would be sufficiently alarmed at the notion of Haluk doppelganger spies that they would pressure their Delegates interactively over the PlaNet, overriding the influence of the Concerns and forcing a review of the dubious treaties.

Maybe Old Mother Nature sets up some kind of overriding counterirritant when the genetics are a bad match.

The girl may have some silly objections since there is a precontract with Lord Hertford, but my dear wife will have no difficulty overriding any objections.

The overriding principle which, in my opinion, we should follow is the continuous engagement of the largest possible number of Hitlerites on the broadest and most effective fronts.

To this are added many more minor conflicts and one overriding major conflict.

The overriding desire of the special fighters, like that of their less well-endowed fellow Ashregan, is but to serve the Purpose.

Theres draughts, the boy holding the candle said, his youthful anger at being blamed for something he didnt do overriding caution and the need for quiet.

There’s draughts,’ the boy holding the candle said, his youthful anger at being blamed for something he didn’t do overriding caution and the need for quiet.

Hardly believing what she observed, Nancia let the computer act without overriding it.

That's one thing, but it's not just games, because it's realtime, using their data, bollixing their sensors, overriding the safety interlocks.

That’s one thing, but it’s not just games, because it’s realtime, using their data, bollixing their sensors, overriding the safety interlocks.

It was a good plan, but with one overriding weakness—there were no heroes and no winners, just cities turned to boneyards.