(not comparable) Prior; occurring before something else, either in time or order.
He is no better than the previous Prime Minister.
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(informal) ; acting or occurring too soon.
Putin’s answered by simply stating he did not believe Ukraine had honored the previous ceasefires Moscow had unilaterally called, and that Kyiv has said Moscow never respected either.
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(informal, UK) An existing criminal record (short for "previous convictions").
It turned out the shoplifter had a lot of previous.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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