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Webster 1913 Edition
Priority
1.
The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else;
as,
. priority
of application2.
Precedence; superior rank.
Shak.
Priority of debts
, a superior claim to payment, or a claim to payment before others.
Syn. – Antecedence; precedence; preëminence.
Webster 1828 Edition
Priority
PRIOR'ITY
,Noun.
1.
Precedence in place or rank.Priority of debts, is a superior claim to payment, or to payment before others.
Definition 2024
priority
priority
English
Noun
priority (plural priorities)
- 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.
- (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."
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page viii
- (obsolete) Precedence; superior rank.
- 1608, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Coriolanus, I. i. 244:
- Follow Cominius. We must follow you. / Right worthy you priority.
- 1608, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Coriolanus, I. i. 244:
Derived terms
Terms derived from priority
Translations
item's relative importance
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goal of a person or an organisation
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attributive use — see prioritized