previous
IPA: prˈiviʌs
noun
- (informal, UK) An existing criminal record (short for "previous convictions")
- (informal, UK) A track record of similar behaviour.
adjective
- (not comparable) Prior; occurring before something else, either in time or order.
- (informal) Premature; acting or occurring too soon.
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Examples of "previous" in Sentences
- I recant the previous statement.
- The previous lead was a throwaway.
- The previous request was fruitless.
- The bomb exploded the previous day.
- The previous and the new one are the same.
- The phrasing in the previous version was odd.
- The logic is the same as in the previous discussion.
- The previous designation for the roadway is covered.
- It was in the previous, horrible version of the article.
- In continuance of that is a result of the previous wording.
- For one term previous to that time Mr. Benedict was city attorney.
- Both of them have had a long association with Milton Colin had served previously on council in the term previous to the last one.
- Earlier this week, a flier was distributed in Iowa attacking him for what it called his previous infidelities, according to Politico.
- Previous year: The term previous year means the income earned during the previous year, which is to be assessed to tax in the assessment year.
- She was a small, fussy lady, energetic and very business-like, who complained of what she called previous mismanagement and seemed to avoid friendly relations.
- At the announcement that Captain Mapes Dale, who was the military instructor at Colby Hall, was approaching, the boys who had attended the academy the term previous fell back in alarm.
- House Republican leaders had expressed opposition through that spring to giving the IMF the money it could use for new bailouts, decrying what they described as previous destabilizing loans to other countries.
- From what you described as your previous open-mindedness and your status as someone "hot," I would assume that that you did not cancel the date because there is a possibility that this assignation would not become a relationship.
- This may be wondered at, but the fact of the matter was that Sam, by hard work the term previous, had caught up to Tom, while Dick, because of being away on some business for his father at various times, had dropped a little behind.