priority.
An item's relative importance.
Meaning & usage
An item's relative importance.
He set his e-mail message's priority to high.
A goal of a person or an organisation.
She needs to get her priorities straight and stop playing games.
The 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.
A superior claim to use by virtue of being validly published at an earlier date.
Precedence; superior rank.
Right of way; The right to pass (an intersection) before other road users.
Where this word comes from
From Old French priorite, from Latin priōritās. Surface analysis: prior + -ity.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.