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supersede | American Dictionary

supersede
verb[ T ]
us/ˌsu·pərˈsid/
to replace something older, less effective, or less important or official:
Wireless broadband could supersede satellite radio one day.
The state law was superseded by the federal Family and Medical Leave Act.

supersede | Business English

supersede
verb[ T ]
uk /ˌsuːpəˈsiːd/us
if a law, rule, agreement, etc. supersedes another, it replaces it:
The newly signed deal supersedes the current contract and runs to the end of 2012.
be superseded by sthIt is important to ascertain that the documents in your possession have not been superseded by new laws.
supersede a law/regulation/sb's authorityIf the Bill is passed, it will supersede the Fed's authority.
if a process, system, or product supersedes another, it replaces it because it is more modern or becomes more popular:
The internet seems to have superseded every mode of communication ever invented!
be superseded by sthPhones using 2.5G technology were superseded by third-generation (3G) phones.

Examples of supersede

supersede
Should they insist that workers have an "affirmative" right to better work conditions, a right that superseded their employers' freedom to contract?
He defines the heterogeneous products as interventionist products that protect defined interests and/or supersede voluntary transactions.
I would expect over time a common theory of operational semantics to emerge which would supersede much of the contents of the book.
Issues of cost-containment are reality, but they should not supersede the requirement of justice to protect all patients from disease.
Today, however, the variable target function method has been superseded largely by the more efficient torsion angle dynamics algorithm.
It has now been superseded by other collections of data,19 but this does not diminish its earlier importance.
The new approach accepts this awareness and is presented at superseding earlier approaches examining, for example, specific sensory pathways.
The prevalent view was that the concept of the equality of states as a fundamental principle of modern international law should be superseded.
It supersedes the previous two concepts because it refers to the high moral and spiritual condition that one reaches through guidance.
But the wider socio-cultural context in which folk-song once had its place had been superseded.
The original magnitude scale served its purpose at the time, but has since been superseded by other, more physically meaningful, measurements.
In order to learn the new discrimination the subject must now supersede the acquired bias and in its place attend to this newly-relevant dimension.
Original saga characters may have been superseded or transformed into new characters, such as witches, by diabolisation.
The true viscosity and thermal conductivity are invariably superseded by sub-grid models.
The shelf-life of drugs can exceed 20 years; devices tend to be superseded within 2 to 3 years.
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