Definition of "prevailing" []

• Most frequent or common; predominant. (adjective)
• Generally current; widespread. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "RUSTICUS, that _arrishers_ is the term prevailing in that county for"
• "My friend Gary Rosenblatt, the publisher and editor of New York's Jewish Week, is right when he decries what he calls the prevailing "attack politics mentality.""
• "Last week, a Canadian journalist wrote an op-ed piece on what she referred to as the prevailing "culture of porn" in Western society."