priority

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  • (UK) IPA: /ˈpɹaɪɒɹɪti/ SAMPA: /"praIQrIti:/

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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.

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

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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."

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