latternoun
I agree with the latter point, but not with the former.
Of the two proposals, they accepted the former.
Of the two options, we've gone for the former.
The former was rejected in favour of the latter.
The heavyweight contest between Smith and Walker was decided when the former was knocked out in the second round.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

First and firstly
advance guard
at first blushidiom
at firstidiom
begin
blush
debut
from the word goidiom
front end
in the first/second placeidiom
inaugural
initial
initially
maiden
originally
prefatory
primary
proto-
prototypical
starter
word
-former
suffix
uk / -fɔː.mər/ us / -fɔːr.mɚ/
a student of the stated class group: 某年级的学生
sixth-formers (= students usually aged 16–18)六年级学生

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Students & pupils
-grader
alum
alumna
alumnae
alumni
alumnus
entrant
graduate
homeschooler
house officer
houseman
infant
internship
pupil
school-leaver
schoolboy
schoolchild
schoolgirl
schoolmate
theologian

former | American Dictionary

former
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˈfɔr·mər/

formeradjective[not gradable] (EARLIER)

of an earlier time, but not now:
The former president lives on his ranch.
former
noun[ U ]
us/ˈfɔr·mər/

formernoun[U] (FIRST)

the first of two people, things, or groups previously mentioned:
Of the two suggestions, I prefer the former.

former | Business English

former
adjective[ before noun ]
uk /ˈfɔːmər/us
used to describe something that existed or happened in the past
HR
used to describe someone who had a particular position or job in the past:
former chairman/director/presidentHe's a Washington-based health policy consultant and former insurance executive.
former colleague/employee/employerShe was under investigation for allegedly defrauding her former employer out of $600,000.

Examples of former

former
The former's domination rested on the principle of privilege by divine sanction and selection by birth.
The former's idealistically active audience confronts the latter's picture of passive consumers, which is no more than an abstraction.
Mainly it will be the mathematics, science or computer studies teachers or the keen sixth-formers who are intrigued or stimulated to write such software.
Such new term formers unbox and raise make terms less readable and complicate programming.
State and society have been debilitated by the former's lack of legitimacy and by cumulative onslaughts on the economy and societal integrity.
From such a perspective, we can examine the interactional processes by which per formers and audience members frame their words to shape new contexts.
Sixth formers agree with both of these statements (each 3.2) significantly more strongly.
An obvious major difference between corporate and conventional crime is that the former's victims often remain unaware.
The present work is shorter and more elementary and is designed for sixth formers and undergraduates.
The former's movements were brisk and accompanied by sound, but the latter's seemed a mere parody.
The former's theoretical position took much posthumous teasing-out by critics to become widely understood.
Thus, if there is little or inconsistent empirical support for the entry model, the original assumption of instrumental party formers is called into question.
The former's strategy was based on working within rather than outside the system and blending old politics and new economics together with his democratic mandate.
Weighted averaging attempts to compensate for bad tool decisions by smoothing out the poor per formers.
Students who were educated in comprehensive schools, and also sixth formers, agree significantly more strongly with this latter statement than other students.
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