Definitions
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- noun informal, US A
primary election forpresident that takes place on the same day across a widegeographic area covering manyvoters .
Etymologies
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mega- + primary
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Examples
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The story explains how the Clinton campaign was built on inevitability, calling it a "haughty operation so confident it would have the nomination wrapped up by now that it didn't even put a field organization in place for the states that were to come after the megaprimary on February 5th."
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Globe: The dangers of a megaprimary are poorly understood.
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