Priority

noun

/pɹaɪˈɒɹɨti/

Word Frequency: 17.3

Definitions

1.nounAn item's relative importance.

"He set his e-mail message's priority to high."

2.nounA goal of a person or an organisation.

"She needs to get her priorities straight and stop playing games."

3.nounThe quality of being earlier or coming first compared to another thing; the state of being prior.

"In bankruptcy law, a business' debt to its employees has priority over its debt to a landlord, so the employees must be paid first."

4.noun(of a name) A superior claim to use by virtue of being validly published at an earlier date.

5.nounPrecedence; superior rank.

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