primary beneficiary > beneficiario primario
primary colour > colore principale

1 You use primary to describe something that is very important. (FORMAL)
That's the primary reason the company's share price has held up so well...
His misunderstanding of language was the primary cause of his other problems...
= main

2 Primary education is given to pupils between the ages of 5 and 11. (BRIT; in AM, use elementary)
Britain did not introduce compulsory primary education until 1880...
...primary teachers.
ADJ: ADJ n

3 Primary is used to describe something that occurs first.
It is not the primary tumour that kills, but secondary growths elsewhere in the body...
ADJ: ADJ n

4 A primary or a primary election is an election in an American state in which people vote for someone to become a candidate for a political office. Compare general election.
...the 1968 New Hampshire primary...
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