precursor of/to• Human nature often requires conflict as a precursor totruth.• This is the first treatment designed to specifically targetinsulinresistance, which is a precursor todiabetes.• Legalreform was a prerequisite for social change, but not automatically the immediateprecursor of it.• Many of these animals, rather than being simple precursors of sophisticates yet to come, were quite unlike anything ever seen elsewhere.• But for Jenks thought was always the precursor to action.• Some, the precursors offungi, could only survive in the dark.• The Office of Strategic Services was the precursor of the CIA.• His parents, he says, were precursors to the counter-culture.
Originprecursor
(1500-1600)Latinpraecursor, from praecurrere“to run in front”