prevailing
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
prevail/prɪˈveɪl/
▶verb
- 1 prove more powerful or superior.
■ be widespread or current.
- 2 (prevail on/upon) persuade to do something.
– derivatives
prevailing adjective,
prevailingly adverb.
prevailing adjective,
prevailingly adverb.
– origin ME: from L. praevalere, from prae ‘before’ + valere ‘have power’.
'prevailing' also found in these Oxford entries:
background
- Cape doctor
- climate
- concession
- counterculture
- diatonic
- dispensation
- dissent
- focus
- forty
- genius loci
- jejune
- keynote
- Mediterranean climate
- monsoon
- nonconformist
- order
- prevail
- prevailing wind
- rain shadow
- regardless
- spirit
- stream
- system
- tenor
- time-server
- trim
- vogue
- westerly
