first-come
先到先得,先来后到,先到先得的
Definitions
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- : arranged, considered, or done in order of application or arrival, as for purposes of service: orders filled on a first-come basis.
Examples
Fluoride first entered an American water supply through a rather inelegant technocratic scheme.
In the first episode, an officer is shown video of himself shooting and killing a man.
But since those rosy scenarios were first floated, the California political scene has grown more crowded.
Meanwhile, in Florida, Bush was flooded with questions about whether gay marriage could possibly come to the Sunshine State.
Eric Garcetti succeeded Villaraigosa and has received high marks in his first year and a half on the job.
In their shelter, Brion and Ulv crouched low and wondered why the attack didn't come.
This is the first and principal point at which we can stanch the wastage of teaching energy that now goes on.
He was converted and baptized, and was the first Hebrew instructor at Harvard college.
And I have not had the first morsel of food prepared from this grain offered me since I reached the shores of Europe.
Babylas raised his pale face; he knew what was coming; it had come so many times before.