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Priority

//pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An item's relative importance. countable, uncountable

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

  2. 2
    preceding in time wordnet
  3. 3
    A goal of a person or an organisation. countable, uncountable

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

  4. 4
    status established in order of importance or urgency wordnet
  5. 5
    The quality of being earlier or coming first compared to another thing; the state of being prior. countable, uncountable

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

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  1. 6
    A superior claim to use by virtue of being validly published at an earlier date. countable, uncountable

    "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.""

  2. 7
    Precedence; superior rank. countable, uncountable

    "Follow Cominius. We must follow you. / Right worthy you priority."

  3. 8
    Right of way; The right to pass (an intersection) before other road users. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From Old French priorite, from Latin priōritās. Surface analysis: prior + -ity.

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