in the first place

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Adverbial in the first place has 2 senses

in the first place, earlier, in the beginning, to begin with, originally - before now; "why didn't you tell me in the first place?"
primarily, in the first place - of primary import; "this is primarily a question of economics"; "it was in the first place a local matter"

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