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Adjective

priority (not comparable)

  1. (Can we verify() this sense?) Prior or antecedent in time, or preceding something else; as, priority application.
  2. (nonstandard) Having precedence; of superior rank.

Usage notes

Note that most other dictionaries list this only as a noun; some people will correct you if you use it as an adjective.

Noun

priority (plural priorities)

  1. An item's relative importance.
    He set his e-mail message's priority to high.
  2. A goal of a person or an organisation.
    She needs to get her priorities straight and stop playing games.
  3. (taxonomy, of a name) A superior claim to use by virtue of being validly published at an earlier date.
    • 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page viii
      Neither [Jones] […] nor I (in 1966) could conceive of reducing our "science" to the ultimate absurdity of reading Finnish newspapers almost a century and a half old in order to establish "priority."

Derived terms

Translations

item's relative importance
  • Chinese:
    Mandarin: 優先權 cmn(cmn), 优先权 cmn(cmn) (yōuxiānquán), 更 重要的| 事 (gèng zhòngyào de shì)
  • Czech: priorita cs(cs) f.
  • Danish: prioritet da(da) f.
goal of a person or an organisation

 

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Look up priority in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Priority may refer to:
  • Priority date, a concept of establishing waiting times in the immigration process by United States Department of State
  • Priority level, the priority of emergency communications
  • Priority Records, a record label started in 1985 and acquired by Capitol Records
  • Priority right, a time-limited right, triggered by the first filing of an application for a patent
  • Priority signs, a traffic sign that specifies which route has the right of way
  • Scientific priority, the priority of scientific ideas
  • Subordination (finance), the order of priorities in claims for ownership or interest in various assets
  • Principle of Priority, the principle that the oldest available name for a biological taxon is the valid one
  • a tag or attribute of a Requirement in software or systems engineering

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