predominate

Etymology

verb

  1. (intransitive) To dominate, have control, or succeed by superior numbers or size.
  2. (intransitive) To be prominent; to loom large; to be the chief component of a whole.
    Thus, even though a total of four lags of inflation enters the right hand side, forward looking behavior still predominates. 1999, Galí, Jordi and Mark Gertler, “Inflation dynamics: A structural econometric analysis”, in Journal of Monetary Economics, volume 44, page 215
  3. (transitive) To dominate or hold power over, especially through numerical advantage; to outweigh.

adj

  1. Predominant.

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