paramount

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Supreme; highest

Getting those credit cards paid off is paramount.

supreme in authority
{a} chief, superior
{n} a chief
Of greatest importance
Having the greatest influence
Something that is paramount or of paramount importance is more important than anything else. The child's welfare must be seen as paramount. a large US film and television company based in Hollywood, which has made many famous films. more important than anything else (paramont, from par + amont )
The highest or chief
Having the highest rank or jurisdiction; superior to all others; chief; supreme; preëminent; as, a paramount duty
having superior power and influence; "the predominant mood among policy-makers is optimism"
Having the highest rank or authority
{s} superior, supreme; above all, of the highest rank; most important
Paramount Bed Co. Ltd.
{i} Japanese company founded in 1947, manufacturer of hospital beds and home care beds
Paramount Communications
Media and communications corporation. It was founded (as Paramount Pictures Corp.) by W. W. Hodkinson in 1914 as a film distributor. It became a motion-picture company two years later and won attention with stars such as Mary Pickford, Gloria Swanson, and Rudolph Valentino. In the late 1920s and 1930s the studio added Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, and Marlene Dietrich to its roster. Forced to declare bankruptcy after its chain of theaters suffered losses during the transition to sound, the company was reorganized two years later as Paramount Pictures, Inc. Among its successes of the 1940s and '50s were the films of Preston Sturges and Billy Wilder. In 1966 Gulf & Western Industries took control of Paramount, and the new company later changed its name to Paramount Communications. In 1994 it was acquired by Viacom Inc., which in 2000 merged with CBS
paramountcy
The fact or condition of being paramount; supremacy, precedence

we saw this permanence to be true of the general paramountcy of the higher insight, even though in the ebbs of emotional excitement meaner motives might temporarily prevail .

of paramount importance
very important, extremely significant
paramountcy
the state of being paramount; the highest rank or authority
paramountcy
{i} superiority, supremeness, being of the highest rank
paramountly
In a paramount manner
paramountly
superiorly, supremely, in the manner of being the most important
paramount
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