"first-come-first-served" meaning in English

See first-come-first-served in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Head templates: {{en-adj|-|head=first-come-first-served}} first-come-first-served (not comparable)
  1. Describing a process of dealing with people using the principle "first come, first served". Tags: not-comparable Synonyms: first come, first served Translations (Translations): premier arrivé, premier servi (French), 先着順 (senchakujun) (Japanese), 早い者勝ち (hayaimonogachi) (Japanese), 선착순 (seonchaksun) (Korean), por orden de llegada (Spanish)

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for first-come-first-served meaning in English (1.8kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "head": "first-come-first-served"
      },
      "expansion": "first-come-first-served (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with redundant script codes",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant script codes",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Korean terms with redundant script codes",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant script codes",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006, US Department of Health and Human Services, Virginia Changes \"First Come, First Served\" for Multiple Orders",
          "text": "Effective March 30, 2006, the State of Virginia no longer follows their “first come, first served” policy regarding allocation of multiple child support orders.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Describing a process of dealing with people using the principle \"first come, first served\"."
      ],
      "id": "en-first-come-first-served-en-adj-WKZz9qWQ",
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "first come, first served"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "premier arrivé, premier servi"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "senchakujun",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "先着順"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "hayaimonogachi",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "早い者勝ち"
        },
        {
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "seonchaksun",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "선착순"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "por orden de llegada"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "first-come-first-served"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "head": "first-come-first-served"
      },
      "expansion": "first-come-first-served (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncomparable adjectives",
        "Japanese terms with redundant script codes",
        "Korean terms with redundant script codes",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Translation table header lacks gloss"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006, US Department of Health and Human Services, Virginia Changes \"First Come, First Served\" for Multiple Orders",
          "text": "Effective March 30, 2006, the State of Virginia no longer follows their “first come, first served” policy regarding allocation of multiple child support orders.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Describing a process of dealing with people using the principle \"first come, first served\"."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "first come, first served"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "premier arrivé, premier servi"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "senchakujun",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "先着順"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "hayaimonogachi",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "早い者勝ち"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "seonchaksun",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "선착순"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "por orden de llegada"
    }
  ],
  "word": "first-come-first-served"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.