paramount issue

1. 1.

   an issue whose settlement is more important than anything else; and issue that must be settled before anything else can be settled

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Questions about paramount issue

What does paramount issue mean?

paramount issue means "an issue whose settlement is more important than anything else; and issue that must be settled before anything else can be settled".

Is paramount issue a common word?

paramount issue is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.