[Ads-l] New Sense of "Primary"?

[Dan Goncharoff]

Fred

Can you show an example of primary used as you describe as a noun?

DanG

On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 2:47 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>
wrote:

> I apologize if this has already been discussed on ADS-L.  It seems to me
> that a new meaning of the political noun "primary" has emerged.  I always
> thought the political meaning of the noun "primary" was "an election in
> which a preference or delegates are chosen as a preliminary to the
> nomination of a party candidate."  However, this year it seems to be used
> frequently to mean "the season or process of presidential primaries as a
> whole."
>
>
> Fred Shapiro
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