Highest quality grade for beef (5)

I believe the answer is:

prime

(Other definitions for prime that I've seen before include "Prepare for use, say a pump" , "Main; indivisible number" , "2017, for example" , "Capital - of first importance" , "Original" .)

I've seen this clue in the Universal.

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