overriding

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of override

noun

1. The act or process by which something is overridden.

adj

1. Superior, of supreme importance in the case.

   “Our overriding concern is the safety of the children.”

   “The overriding fact of our lives, the shadow that determined everything we did or did not do or longed to do, was poverty.”

   “The overriding fear among the APPRG [All-Party Parliamentary Rail Group] was that the Treasury's micro-management of the rail industry would mean that it determines Great British Railway's future moves, rather than the DfT.”